Alan Jackson Quotes

I feel the older I get, the more I'm learning to handle life. Being on this quest for a long time, it's all about finding yourself.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.

I like getting older. When you're in your twenties you're really forging for your future. Things take shape later on.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

Every experience makes you a man.

I'm one of those people that makes a better adult than I did a kid.

People become more interesting from about 25 - they develop character and their personalities come out.

When you're 22 or 23, you think the world revolves around you, and I felt that way for a long time. But I just turned 30, and I love it! You realize, 'Whoa, baby, you ain't all that.' And you're not! You're just a woman out there doing something she loves.

I feel like I've reached an age where I can relax a little bit with the knowledge of what I've been through, take all that experience and use it. I love the challenge of trying to get back to where I've been, and beyond it.

I've always thrown myself into different kinds of experiences, sometimes into really bad things. But, you grow up. You become more of a woman and you know yourself. I think knowing yourself is a wonderful thing especially when you're in your 40s and you're kind of in your skin. Life is not so confusing anymore.

It took me a long time to grow up.

You have to grow up, and you learn things along the way.

With age and experience, I started to know myself better.

You mature, you learn things.

With time, you do get mature.

I had to grow up, reach a certain age where I see people do have something to show me.

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

My friend Madea has "attitude" that comes with wisdom. Back in our teens and twenties, we thought we knew everything and made all those foolish mistakes. Then, when we got a little older, at thirty, we started getting these flashes of light, revelations of what a great and lucky thing it is that we didn't get caught doing those stupid things back then. Around forty, if we are lucky, we stop lying to ourselves. Fifty and above, we've run out of patience for foolishness. Take me to the bottom line.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

Life experience is not something to be denied, but to be celebrated.

At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

One should mature over 20 years.

Life is not quantifiable in terms of age, but I suppose in my fifties I am more grounded and more at ease in my own skin than when I was younger. I have a confidence that I didn't have before from the experiences I've had.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.