Joe Paterno Quotes

You grow, you mature, you live, and you learn. You get a little wiser, and you learn better ways to handle things.

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

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.

I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.

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

The older you get the more capable you get at managing life.

You go through life and learn valuable lessons.

I've matured as a writer and human being. I've got some wisdom under my belt.

You mature, you learn things.

I have learned a lot over the years. I have learned how best to use my attributes. That comes with a bit of knowledge and a bit of wisdom.

When you decide to go into coaching, obviously you don't forget why. That's to help develop young people, help them chase their dreams, help them reach their goals.

The more you learn, the less you fear. "Learn" not in the sense of academic study, but in the practical understanding of life.

The most human thing about anyone is a thing he learns and ... and earns. It's a thing he can't have when he's very young; if he gets it at all, he gets it after a long search and a deep conviction. After that it's truly part of him as long as he lives.

Just because I was 30 doesn't mean I was grown. God, I was such an idiot. I was an absolute idiot at 30. And I grew up.

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

It's like people always say, Well, does sport teach you anything in life? It teaches you certain things, but it doesn't teach you other things. It doesn't teach, as I say, very much about marriage, very much about how to make a living, any of those things.

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

The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.

Everything in life is a lesson and I have learned from each marriage. Yes, I've made mistakes but every experience is a learning curve.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

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

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

Turning 50 is a little bit of a 'taking stock' moment. I feel probably a little dumber. I don't think I'm as sharp as I was when I was younger, but I'm definitely wiser and less likely to make gigantic blunders of an intellectual, spiritual, emotional or physical type.

Validation comes to us in two ways: through trials we overcome, and through the words of older men.

All experience is good experience.