Maturity Quotes
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The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. (Quote by - Paul Johannes Tillich)
There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes. (Quote by - Doctor Who)
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life. (Quote by - Anonymous)
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity. (Quote by - Richard Owen)
How many really capable men are children more than once during the day? (Quote by - Napoleon Bonaparte)
Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares. (Quote by - Doris Lessing)
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. (Quote by - Brian Tracy)
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. (Quote by - Karl Rahner)
Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now. (Quote by - Bob Dylan)
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. (Quote by - Randall Hall)
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt. (Quote by - Leo Baeck)
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live. (Quote by - Andre Gide)
The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one. (Quote by - Wilhelm Stekel)
Most men do not mature, they simply grow taller. (Quote by - Leo Rosten)
Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity. (Quote by - Marilyn vos Savant)
I think it's a change that I did not intend at the time but it is clear that, from The Flower of My Secret on, there is a change in my films. A lot of the journalists have very generously attributed this to my growing maturity. (Quote by - Pedro Almodovar)
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up. (Quote by - Eve Babitz)
There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self. (Quote by - Hindustani proverb)
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. (Quote by - Immanuel Kant)
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (Quote by - John Finley)
By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed. (Quote by - Robert S Hillyer)
Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. (Quote by - Wes Fessler)
The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. (Quote by - Muhammed Iqbal)
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity. (Quote by - Edwin Louis Cole)
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)
Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. (Quote by - Sir Winston Churchill)
One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it better. (Quote by - Cesare Pavese)
My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.' (Quote by - W. H. Auden)
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. (Quote by - Pope John Paul II)
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant. (Quote by - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola)
When I grow up I want to be a little boy. (Quote by - Joseph Heller)
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. (Quote by - E. James 'Jim' Rohn)
Immaturity prevails in those who pursue it. (Quote by - Mary Reinhardt)
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. (Quote by - William Arthur Ward)
When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable. (Quote by - Madeleine L'Engle)
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. (Quote by - Gertrude Stein)
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood. (Quote by - Samuel Johnson)
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. (Quote by - Douglas Engelbart)
A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals. (Quote by - Gordon Wallport)
If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. (Quote by - M. Esther Harding)
Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. (Quote by - Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero)
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. (Quote by - Julius Gordon)
I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. (Quote by - Anthony Doerr)
I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Quote by - Peggy Cahn)
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. (Quote by - Fritz Kunkel )
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity. (Quote by - Paul Theroux)
The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through. (Quote by - Harry A. Overstreet)
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. (Quote by - Peggy Cahn)
You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself. (Quote by - George Bernard Shaw)
True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it. (Quote by - Larry McMurtry)
Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it. (Quote by - Martial)
Age is a high price to pay for maturity. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. (Quote by - Dag Hammarskjold)
You're never too old to grow up. (Quote by - Shirley Conran)
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. (Quote by - John Finley)
A Silver Jubilee has a special significance in the life of any institution as it signifies a coming of age and maturity (Quote by - L. K. Mohohlo)
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. (Quote by - Joshua L. Liebman)
Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age. (Quote by - Bible)
Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations. (Quote by - Samuel Ullman)
Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war. (Quote by - Charles Wilson)
I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge. (Quote by - David Kay)
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on. (Quote by - Joe E. Lewis)
What power had I before I learned to yield? Shatter me Great Wind! I shall possess the field! Richard Wilbur a stanza from his poem To A Milkweed. (Quote by - Richard Wilbur)
The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. (Quote by - Wilhelm Stekel)
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. (Quote by - Kurt Vonnegut)
If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men? (Quote by - Vincent Van Gogh)
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all. (Quote by - Oscar Wilde)
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. (Quote by - John MacNaughton)
One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them. (Quote by - Virginia Woolf)
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse (Quote by - Benjamin Spock)
Immature love says, 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says, 'I need you because I love you.' (Quote by - Erich Fromm)
Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised. (Quote by - Ann Landers)
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. (Quote by - Mary Beth Danielson)
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. (Quote by - Marianne Williamson)
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. (Quote by - Publilius Syrus)
By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future. (Quote by - Anonymous)
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. (Quote by - Tom Stoppard)
Youth condemns; maturity condones. (Quote by - Amy Lowell)
The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity (Quote by - Thomas Henry Huxley)
Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. (Quote by - Wes Fessler)
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. (Quote by - Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg)
Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity. (Quote by - Vera Brittain)
Age is no guarantee of maturity. (Quote by - Lawana Blackwell)
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us. (Quote by - Virgil A. Kraft)
When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower. (Quote by - Lytton Strachey)
Adults are obsolete children. (Quote by - Dr Seuss)
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. (Quote by - Terri Apter)
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. (Quote by - Thomas A Edison)
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen. (Quote by - Brigitte Bardot)
Where id was, there shall ego be. (Quote by - Sigmund Freud)
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. (Quote by - Jules Feiffer)
Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits. (Quote by - Hervey Allen)
Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. (Quote by - Martha Graham)
When the apple is ripe it will fall. (Quote by - Irish Proverb)
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity. (Quote by - Tobias Wolff)
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. (Quote by - Robertson Davies)
When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity. (Quote by - Victoria Principal)
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work. (Quote by - Jane Badler)
I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that. (Quote by - Chris Brown)
One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little. (Quote by - Kenneth Koch)
Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats. (Quote by - Woody Allen)
Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. (Quote by - F. Scott Fitzgerald)
While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain. (Quote by - Wes Fessler)
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. (Quote by - Joshua L. Liebman)
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong. (Quote by - Sydney J. Harris)
Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity. (Quote by - Marlon Brando)
