Prince Charles Quotes

Maturity involves being honest and true to oneself, making decisions based on a conscious internal process, assuming responsibility for one's decisions, having healthy relationships with others and developing one's own true gifts. It involves thinking about one's environment and deciding what one will and won't accept.

Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own.

I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

I think that's the moment when we all grow up, when we stop blaming our parents for the messes we've made out of our lives and start owning the consequences of our actions.

I don't want to just revolve. I want to evolve. As a man, as a human, as a father, as a lover.

When we're growing up there are all sorts of people telling us what to do when really what we need is space to work out who to be.

I'm not a boy now. I'm a man, I hope. I hope I've had my artistic bar mitzvah somewhere.

To accuse others for one's own misfortunes is a sign of want of education. To accuse oneself shows that one's education has begun. To accuse neither oneself nor others shows that one's education is complete.

Everybody wants to be somebody; nobody wants to grow.

I take responsibility for myself and what I do now.

Really, I was such a late bloomer, I really didn't learn how to be me until I was in my late '40s, which is when I started playing roles that were closer to me.

I don't think men figure out what they're really about until they're 25. That's when they start to feel like themselves.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

One thing I've learned is that I'm not the owner of my talent; I'm the manager of it.

You don't wake up at 18 and necessarily become the person you want to be as an adult - you have to work hard to become them.

In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life.

I am turning into the person I knew I would.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you're older, I think, is that you really must make the self.

Young kids don't have their identity, so everything is so important. Now I'm mature. I know who I am and I know what my thing is and I know what I'm bringing. It's very clear and defined.

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Self-development is a higher duty than self-sacrifice.

I didn't get on TV until I was 30, which is really fortunate because you are who you are at that point.

As I grew older, I came to feel more responsible for any hardship or trouble my career caused my family.