James Truslow Adams Quotes

I grow old, ever learning many things.

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from age and experience.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Character is a journey, not a destination.

People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

I've got volumes on how not to behave. I've got more information now than a guy should have at my age.

Every experience makes you a man.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

Read some good, heavy, serious books just for discipline: Take yourself in hand and master yourself.

With age, I've gained confidence.

I have learned from my mistakes and become older.

Every experience you can get adds to you; it really adds to the mental side of things, too.

I've become a better boxer and a better person.

Every person learns with time and experience.

I think everything you do in life is a learning experience.

Age doesn't make a man.

Assume a virtue, if you have it not. That monster, custom, who all sense doth eat; Of habits devil, is angel yet in this.

Some form of self-discipline is necessary to transmute material desires into spiritual aspirations.

The battle for self-discipline may leave you a bit bruised and battered but always a better person.

For the moment all discipline seems painful rather than pleasant; later it yields the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained by it.

I tell you what I love - and I think you get better as you get older - when you're younger and you don't know what you don't know, you tend to talk more about what you think you know. You shut out the opportunity to learn what you don't know.

The most valuable form of discipline is the one that you impose upon yourself.

A man learns with age, if he is lucky.