
Top 100 Be Mature Quotes
#1. No matter how long you live, no matter how mature or philosophical you may grow to be, almost all sudden enlightenment will feel precisely this way, like a boot in the stomach, like acid on your tongue, and the sooner you accept this the better off you'll be.
Ron Currie Jr.
#2. Ideal love is fostered only between two sincere, mature and independent people. Real love is not two people clinging to each other; it can only be fostered between two strong people secure in their individuality.
Daisaku Ikeda
#3. I am not the same man I was 35 years ago. And I hope that five years and ten years from now, I'll be a better man, a more mature man, a wiser man, a more humble man and a more spirited man to serve the good of my people and the good of humanity.
Louis Farrakhan
#4. One of the smartest things a person can do is dampen investment expectations, especially with Berkshire. That would be mature and responsible. I like our model and we should do nicely
Charlie Munger
#5. The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product.
Fernando J. Corbato
#6. If somebody ever says something is a mature theme, it's bound to not be. I mean, you shouldn't fall for that. You can make it sound mature, but anything that's about being mature is pretty immature.
Ariel Pink
#7. I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.
Sasha Cohen
#8. emotional health and spiritual maturity are inseparable. It is not possible to be spiritually mature while remaining emotionally immature.
Peter Scazzero
#9. That's so mature. I thought we were past junior high school." - Arelia
"We may be, but boys will never be" - Sabrina
Kira Saito
#10. Everyone's life is an evolution of emotions, spirit and beliefs. The storyline changes, plots thicken, main characters mature and new spiritual journeys begin. This is true of inspirational authors. Their books represent only the stages of their life. New triumphs of the soul have yet to be written!
Shannon L. Alder
#11. I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.
Kwame Kilpatrick
#12. I love you Rose, I love you with everything that I am, which may not be much, but it's all yours.
Tish Thawer
#13. You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?
M.R. James
#14. If you do not meet inspiring obstacles and failure, cry; you do not have the great path to explore, grow and mature to be great
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#15. She watches him for hours. She wants to be the sheets that cover his toes. She wants to be the ceiling separating him from the sky: above him, the first thing he sees before and after dreams. She wants to be the open window letting in the light for him.
Natalia Jaster
#16. My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
Vince Staples
#17. I realize that I'm a mature woman and one of these days, incredible diet or not, I'll be a little old lady.
Victoria Moran
#18. To be mature and complete, not lacking anything, you must persevere. Perseverance is developed when your faith is tested. Your faith is tested when you face trials of many kinds. So when you do, be joyful. Pure joy, the greatest joy, only happens through the greatest trials.
Matt Ham
#19. Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#20. None of us is so mature that we cannot be influenced. The question is: Who or what do we want to shape our lives?
Ann Spangler
#21. I want to be a mature artist with a different kind of thinking.
Maria Callas
#22. I don't think arrested-adolescent humor will fade. Maybe the form will change, but I guarantee its replacement will still be based in immature behavior from mature figures.
Adam McKay
#23. Life was all about choices. You chose what to make out of what you had. And I wasn't going to let it make me its bitch. I could be a mature adult who knew her limits. I could be a good person. Maybe not all the time, but enough.
Mariana Zapata
#24. I'm older today than yesterday, and therefore I must be more mature.
Jarod Kintz
#25. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
Jack Welch
#26. Lord, bless the works of my hands. Let my name be associated with good things. Shield me from persecution and false accusations; guard me against greed, discouragement, and sabotage. I welcome opportunities to grow and mature. Let my actions be in sync with Your will. In Jesus's name, amen.
Cindy Trimm
#27. The self ... is not an organic thing that has a specific location, whose fundamental fate is to be born, to mature, to die; it is a dramatic effect arising diffusely from a scene that is presented.
Erving Goffman
#28. In my long and difficult and mature life, I have come to learn that the less I know about acting and the more I know about everything else, the better I'll be at both acting and living.
Jean Seberg
#29. Percy (talking about Annabeth):I found myself staring at her, which was stupid since I'd seen her a billion times. Still, she seemed so much more mature. It was kind of intimidating. I mean, sure, she'd always been cute, but she was starting to be seriously beautiful.
Rick Riordan
#30. Poetry, Shakespeare and opera, are like mumps and should be caught when young. In the unhappy event that there is a postponement to mature years, the results may be devastating.
Dimitris Mita
#31. To mature means to take responsibility for your life, to be on your own. Psychoanalysis fosters the infantile state by considering that the past is responsible for the illness.
Frederick Salomon Perls
#32. There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.
Anne Bishop
#33. The adult within me would be much wiser to learn from the child within me rather than focus on the demand that the child within me grow up.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#34. It's like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes? - Dexter Mayhew
David Nicholls
#35. In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.
Sargent Shriver
#36. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.
Lisa Kleypas
#37. To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
Dwyane Wade
#38. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.
Criss Jami
#39. There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant
#40. I think that's really where we need to be more consistent as believers. Exodus will do that for people who come to us for help. But we will encourage the church to do that in general for anyone and everyone who's seeking to be a mature believer in Christ.
Alan Chambers
#41. Quercus: oak tree. The oak takes an extraordinarily long time to produce seeds. While some plants and trees do so within days or weeks, the oak can take up to fifty years to mature enough before it's ready for offspring. The same can be said for certain people who shall remain nameless.
Deb Caletti
#42. The true sign of a robust and mature life rests in how many times that life has been knocked down, for to be incessantly knocked down and yet find oneself still standing means that someone had the resolve to get up that many times plus one.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#43. The thing is that oftentimes, we want to be everything all at once. We want to be strong and mature, and God wants that for us, too. But just like that flowerpot had to sit in the sun and receive water day after day, we have to sit in God's presence every day, too.
Victoria Osteen
#44. You Have To Be Mature Enough For A Kid Inside You!
Sundeep Lal
#45. It's always my goal to be more mature-sounding, more convincing, but also more experimental, and more challenging for myself. If it's not a little bit harder every time I make a new track, then I'm being lazy.
Lotic
#46. I always think, what type of 11th grader would I be if I was still at school? Or if I was home all the time, would I be at the gym 24/7? Would I be as good at guitar? I know I wouldn't be as mature as I am.
Shawn Mendes
#47. If only we could realize that our purpose is to be caretakers. We are responsible for leading our flock to the place where the grass is green, but it is up to them to eat! We cannot be responsible for how much they digest. We cannot make people mature.
T.D. Jakes
#48. Mature as he was, she might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man.
E. M. Forster
#49. The Lord is letting the wheat and the tares mature before he fully purges the Church. He is also testing you to see if you will be misled. The devil is trying to deceive the very elect.
Ezra Taft Benson
#50. Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.
Joseph Story
#51. What could you do? Major Major asked himself again. What could you do with a man who looked you squarely in the eye and said he would rather die than be killed in combat, a man who was at least as mature and intelligent as you were and who you had to pretend was not? What could you say to him?
Joseph Heller
#52. Unabashedly, Yokoi said, "The Nintendo way of adapting technology is not to look for the state of the art but to utilize mature technology that can be mass-produced cheaply.
Harold Goldberg
#53. Usually right when I'm feeling it, right when it's happening, I always find I need to be in some sort of survival mode or mature mom mode, so it always seems to come later that I have the breakdown.
Natalie Maines
#54. The notion of a formal structure of command must be abandoned. It is more useful to think of the mature corporation as a series of concentric circles.
John Kenneth Galbraith
#55. What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
Meghan Daum
#56. Well till 50's one must not think of being old - and should be able to run and have fun both ... having few grey means that you have mature approach !!
Abdul'Rauf Hashmi
#57. I mean, that was the code, wasn't it? Single girls and taken guys weren't allowed to be friends. The leash always got in the way.
Carrie Butler
#58. I look at my career and I feel I have the potential to maybe mature into a Samuel Jackson-type older cat, and people will still respect me and say 'Yo, Ice-T was wild', into my old age. And why not? I don't necessarily think I'll be rapping in 10 years.
Ice-T
#59. I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.
Judd Apatow
#60. Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.
Sean O Faolain
#61. You will never know the purest love you can give a person, until the day you hurt because they hurt. You genuinely want them to succeed in life and be free from all the chains that keep them from being happy, whether you are in their life or not.
Shannon L. Alder
#63. 'Can't Stop Dancing' is this other side of me that I was ready to introduce to my fans, which is like, after you hang out with me, you start to see that I can be chilled and relaxed, and I'm a little bit more mature for my age.
Becky G
#64. She looked like a grown-up, a calm, controlled grown-up, and she was glad for that one mercy. No one would be able to judge from her exterior that she was falling apart on the inside or that she didn't feel mature at all.
Carol Oates
#65. Being mature isn't what it's cracked up to be.
Joanne Fluke
#66. You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.
Kevin DeYoung
#67. When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.
Daniel Keyes
#68. When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.
Sofia Vergara
#69. I started modeling quite young. I would really recommend to every girl not to start modeling until they turn 17, to be honest. Before that, I think you're not mature enough.
Anja Rubik
#70. Anyway, I went out and bought thousands of dollars worth of mature clothes so I'd look like a person to be taken seriously, instead of a pretty little twit.
Shelley Duvall
#71. Gorillas are the largest of the great apes. A mature male may be six feet tall and weigh 400 pounds or more; his enormous arms can span eight feet.
Dian Fossey
#72. There's nothing more frustrating than seeing cynics sit there and say, 'Well, nobody can make any more money because Microsoft and Intel own everything.' Is the software industry mature, or is it embryonic? I would say it's embryonic. There will be a hundred more Microsofts, not just one.
Michael J. Saylor
#73. What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.
Peace Pilgrim
#74. Teachers don't just teach; they can be vital personalities who help young people to mature, to understand the world, and to understand themselves. A good education consists of much more than useful facts and marketable skills.
Charles Platt
#75. Make your worst day is the best day in your life,because surely there's something missing within our self without it,so we can be who we are now ,the wiser and the mature one
Faiz Triumph
#76. Our deepest mature conviction is that finite and infinite interpenetrate, as time and eternity interpenetrate, and our problems must be solved in the light of that conviction.
Lily Dougall
#77. All of the good stuff is going to be done in the future. The stuff we are doing now is crummy compared with what will finally mature.
Bill Budge
#78. Women cannot claim the right to be considered mature and responsible until they decide the course of their lives for themselves and refuse to be a "manipulated group." They will not be truly emancipated untilthe right to work is a matter of course and not of discussion.
Mary Barnett Gilson
#79. I think age is terribly overrated. You're okay as long as you don't grow up. By all means grow old, but don't mature. Remain childlike, retain wonder, the ability to be flabbergasted by something.
Billy Connolly
#80. Inevitably those remarks will suggest that the member of a mature scientific community is, like the typical character of Orwell's 1984, the victim of a history rewritten by the powers that be.
Thomas S. Kuhn
#81. We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.
Julian Barnes
#82. I don't know that 'NCIS: Los Angeles' is a complete reinvention, but I'm playing one of the guys in charge this time. Before I'd be cast as a young impressionable character. I think part of that is just being more mature.
Chris O'Donnell
#83. All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.
Clarissa Pinkola Estes
#84. Most married people can expect a specific other person to be there for them in a way that a single person typically cannot. Does that make married people more mature than single people?
Married people are on training wheels. Singles are riding the bikes for grown-ups.
Bella DePaulo
#85. At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.
Bruce Beresford
#86. Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.
T.F. Hodge
#87. Be patient. Everything has it's time. You can't make an orange mature right away because you are hungry
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#88. If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
Joyce Meyer
#89. The body of Christ needs to mature until we can distinguish a true prophetic word from merely the word of a prophet. Many modern Christians are afraid to reject anything spoken by one who claims to be a prophet or prophetess.
Iverna Tompkins
#90. I can't say I'm a Bond girl because I'm too mature to be a Bond girl. I say Bond lady; Bond woman. But I'm proud to be a Bond lady, because actually, Bond is the most amazing man.
Monica Bellucci
#92. Be Mature is not always about age, but how big the responsibility they have..
Sukma Archie
#93. If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.
Alan Jackson
#94. I hope to always be myself, except more mature and knowing more.
David Archuleta
#95. It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.
Norman Lear
#96. Adults had the notion that juveniles needed to suffer. Only when they had suffered enough to wipe out most of their naturally joyous spirits and innocence were they staid enough to be considered mature. An adult was essentially a broken-down child.
Piers Anthony
#97. The "growing" we attribute to becoming more mature, could be more accurately described as "shrinking," as we cut away the nonsense that emotionally weighs us down.
Steve Maraboli
#98. My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read!
Tuula Kallioniemi
#99. I never wanted to be aligned to a mature group because they go off and become politicians and stuff.
Richard O'Brien
#100. That's my dream to be old enough and mature enough that I won't be considered an "old lady" if I have a house with a barn. Because I already do needlepoint.
Emmy Rossum
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