Top 55 Growth Maturity Quotes
#1. The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Wendell Berry
#2. A profession that completely matches your talent, aspirations and skills is the best profession you can choose.
Eraldo Banovac
#3. Your children will stop paying attention to you when they have reached your age of emotional maturity. If your child is starting to tune you out, you need to go through a growth spurt of emotional and spiritual maturity. You can never chase a child to a higher awareness; you can only lead them.
Rand Olson
#4. Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.
Sydney J. Harris
#5. The author likens crisis, and particularly war, to stop motion photography in its capacity to make changes plain that are ordinarily too gradual to be seen.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
#6. Our patents' old age shocks us in the same manner that our children's growth to maturity does , but without the joy.
Azar Nafisi
#7. Running away, avoiding life's battles or giving up robs you of the opportunity to grow and be stronger.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#8. Your thoughts will make you a victor or a victim.
Rob Liano
#10. The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.
Steven Callahan
#11. Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.
Vatsal Surti
#12. Cadets can neither be treated as schoolboys or soldiers.
Robert E.Lee
#13. To fully understand how utterly amazing we really are we must first understand all of the things about us that are not, and then we must make our habitation where they are not.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#15. For students who have not been required to confess that it is easier to learn theology then live it, it is tempting to think maturity is more a matter of knowing in a matter of living
Paul David Tripp
#16. Don't be afraid. Change is such a beautiful thing, said the Butterfly.
Sabrina Newby
#17. Change takes time. It takes time for the seeds to begin growing within, time to understand and process, time for the growth to mature, and time for the old self to die and fall away.
Bryant McGill
#18. Biblical convictions are essential for spiritual growth and maturity. What is ironic today is that people often have strong convictions about weak issues (football, fashion, etc.) while having weak convictions about major issues (what is right and what is wrong).
Rick Warren
#19. There are many forms of love as there is moments in time, and you are capable of feeling them all at different stages of your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#20. Except. What is normal at any given time? We change just as the seasons change, and each spring brings new growth. So nothing is ever quite the same.
Sherwood Smith
#21. It's essential to growth. It's essential to maturity. It's essential for equipping you, training you, so that you might be an available, clean, sharp instrument in His hands to accomplish His purposes.
Howard G. Hendricks
#22. HONESTLY ... I believe people are intimidated with truthful/ outspoken people.
HONESTY ... will help you grow and it shows maturity.
HONEST ... people will push you closer towards your destiny.
Takina Cupp
#23. Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.
Par Lagerkvist
#24. Age 50 is the mile marker where any mildly perceptive person becomes acutely aware that he or she alone is accountable for the content and coherence of their character.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#25. I fear that should I seek out the treasures around me, they might by comparison reveal that I have not cultivated the treasures within me.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#26. Evolving is not arrogance. It is confidence that won't be pulled backwards, by those that feel left behind.
Shannon L. Alder
#28. The main task of pastoral ministry, according to Paul's address to the Ephesian elders, is not the quantitative growth of the church, but the maturity of the believers.
Eckhard J. Schnabel
#29. That word maturity seems to hold the key to the concept of spirituality, for Christian maturity is the growth which the Holy Spirit produces over a period of time in the believer.
Charles C. Ryrie
#30. Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.
Kemi Sogunle
#31. We have largely traded wisdom for information, depth for breadth. We want to microwave maturity.
John Ortberg Jr.
#32. The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth.
Edgar Lee Masters
#33. Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.
Larry Crabb
#34. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit. It is in the wilderness that you really learn who you are.
Steven Callahan
#35. A true work of art is shaped by the hands of another, and if in shaping us that 'other' is anything other than God, the piece will never touch the remotest periphery of its potential.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#36. Life is about discovering things worth dying for.
Criss Jami
#37. We must not confuse conformity to religious expectation and culture to an actual growth in intimacy with our Lord and maturity of our faith.
Alisa Hope Wagner
#38. Judging a person's maturity by the number of years they've lived is misleading. This is because people mature at different rates.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#39. It is extraordinary how little the New Testament says about God's interest in our success, by comparison with the enormous amount that it says about God's interest in our holiness, our maturity in Christ, and our growth into the fullness of His image.
J.I. Packer
#40. Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#41. I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
Benjamin Disraeli
#42. Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.
John Dewey
#43. Every other science presupposes intelligence as already existing and complete: the philosopher contemplates it in its growth, and as it were represents its history to the mind from its birth to its maturity.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
#44. Just being a writer allows one the maturity to have random conversations with random strangers!
Avijeet Das
#45. In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.
Shannon L. Alder
#47. Get your "MENTAL" weight up, it stays FOREVER, money has no staying power!
L. Michelle
#48. Individualism is the growth-stunting, maturity-inhibiting habit of understanding growth as an isolated self-project. Individualism is self-ism with a swagger. The individualist is the person who is convinced that he or she can serve God without dealing with God.
Eugene H. Peterson
#49. There are more ways to choose a profession. One can choose it by
intention, by strong parental influence or even by accident.
Eraldo Banovac
#50. My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.
Dwyane Wade
#51. Maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute and be very immature. It is possible to be biblically literate and be in need of significant spiritual growth.
Paul David Tripp
#52. It is necessary to grow up in maturity, firmness and courage in order to reach the goal
Sunday Adelaja
#53. Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.
William Morris Davis
#54. It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
William Coperthwaite
#55. I will come back to you, I swear I will;
And you will know me still.
I shall be only a little taller
Than when I went.
Edna St. Vincent Millay
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