Top 93 Mature People Quotes
#1. Infantile people complain and say that God is cruel or that there is no God. Mature people, however, know that there is wisdom and sometimes an eternal kindness in God's refusals.
Norman Vincent Peale
#2. The superficiality of many is a result of deep fears. It takes spare time to think things out; it takes free time to mature. People in a hurry may not think well or mature well. The next best is a state of perpetual puerility.
Eric Hoffer
#3. Mature people must find their own ways to cope with their own temptations.
Amy Dickinson
#4. One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
John W. Gardner
#5. Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.
Fethullah Gulen
#6. Mature people relate to each other without the need to merge.
Anais Nin
#7. Truly mature people are so detached from others that they can love their enemies, bless those who curse them, do good to those who hate them, and pray for those who despitefully use and persecute them. (See Matthew 5:44.)
Kevin FitzMaurice
#9. What people really suffer from is immaturity. Among mature people war would not be a problem - it would be impossible.
Peace Pilgrim
#10. Sorrow and strife comes to all persons. Mature people expect hardships and setbacks and patiently and determinedly work to accomplish their goals. Immature people lash out in anger and frustration when circumstances conspire to blunt their short-term objectives.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#11. Everything in this country [the US] has got to be good looks and unlined faces and thin bodies and people running around in skirts slit up to their ass. It has nothing to do with thinking or with being a human being. There is life in mature people; it's not all over at 24½.
Lauren Bacall
#12. Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.
Roger Scruton
#13. Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them
who answer for them.
William Bennett
#14. You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.
Mikhail Baryshnikov
#15. Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of ... mature people is of crucial importance.
Marie-Louise Von Franz
#16. Her Uncle Jaime felt that people never read what did not interest them and that if it interested them that meant they were sufficiently mature to read it.
Isabel Allende
#17. What usually happens in the educational process is that the faculties are dulled, overloaded, stuffed and paralyzed so that by the time most people are mature they have lost their innate capabilities.
R. Buckminster Fuller
#18. From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.
David Berg
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. (Of course, some people decide to end contact with a family member because of an abusive situation. This decision can be a mature, lifesaving choice.)
Theodora Ross
#22. Most x-rated films are advertised as "adult entertaintment,"for "mature adults," when in reality they are juvenile entertainment for immature and insecure people.
Zig Ziglar
#23. As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.
Marilyn Monroe
#24. There are many streams of cleansing-beginning with the Blood of Jesus! I want us to study and experience them all, as God works among us to free, heal, and mature His people!
Jack W. Hayford
#25. Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God's will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.
Oswald Chambers
#26. Weak and needy people finding their hope in Christ's grace are what mark a mature relationship. The most dangerous aspect of your relationships is not your weakness, but your delusions of strength.
Tim Lane And Paul Tripp
#27. One of my problems is I am getting so mature that I have to pick up a TV and toss it through the coffee table just to remind people of who I am. I want to go ranting and screaming into the grave.
Michael O'Donoghue
#28. 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
#29. Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.
John C. Maxwell
#30. Our aim, during our Presidency in the next six months will be to lead this challenge, to show that Europe can function in a mature and responsible way, to start delivering tangible results that show we are taking people's concerns seriously.
John Hutton
#31. We must remember that democracy works when given time to develop, mature and deliver. People must have access to information for informed debate. Government institutions must treat citizens fairly, and with dignity, while responding to their needs.
Atifete Jahjaga
#32. 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
#33. I can't believe people got so upset at the sight of a single breast! America is so parochial, I may just have to move to Europe where people are more mature about things like that!
Janet Jackson
#34. 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
#35. Raydiation is more mature, reveals more about me personally and focuses on singing and songs that people can relate to.
Ray J
#36. I dream of a love in which two people share a passion to search together for some higher truth. Perhaps I should not call it love. Perhaps it's real name is friendship.
Irvin D. Yalom
#37. The young people of India will build a strong and powerful nation, a nation that is politically mature and economically strong, a nation whose people enjoy both a high quality of life as well as justice.
Pranab Mukherjee
#38. Self-centered leaders manipulate when they move people for personal benefit. Mature leaders motivate by moving people for mutual benefit.
John C. Maxwell
#39. The right people have the right mindsets, they are high-positive, high-innovative, high-influential and high-mature.
Pearl Zhu
#41. Young people are forced to mature sooner now than in the '40s. I was doing things at age 14 that guys in the movie were just beginning to do at 16 and 17.
Parker Stevenson
#42. When I hear people express extreme optimism about the Internet, I say, we've had it in mature form for about ten years. Macroeconomically speaking, those are about the worst 10 years we've had since about the 1930s. I don't blame the Internet for that - that would be ridiculous.
Tyler Cowen
#43. Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.
Henry Ford
#44. Our lives are to be characterized by patience, for it is important in developing the mature, stable character which God wants to produce in His people.
Billy Graham
#45. Horses and jockeys mature earlier than people - which is why horses are admitted to racetracks at the age of two, and jockeys before they are old enough to shave.
Dick Beddoes
#46. People mature with age and experience. I hope I more resemble a fine wine than bad vinegar.
Rick Kaplan
#47. I've never had tastes of people my own age. All of my friends when I was 15 were in their 40s. I'm not actually mature, just very self-conscious around people my own age because I feel like I'm supposed to act the same way they act and I don't know how.
Jesse Eisenberg
#48. 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
#49. I think at its most mature, love is a very bourgeois state. There is something about luxuriating in the nest of love that people fall into naturally.
Alexandra Cassavetes
#50. 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
#51. So many people comment that I'm much more mature than average. In this business, you can get taken advantage of if you're not aware and you're not tough.
Amanda Bynes
#52. I don't like it when people who are young act like they're 40. That's taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you're so mature or whatever - I don't try to act mature. Some people might say I'm mature for my age, but it's not something I'm trying to do, you know? I'm just me.
Taylor Swift
#53. The full concept of discipleship includes sharing our faith, leading people to Christ, and helping them to mature in their faith. But somewhere along the line, the church has separated evangelism from discipleship.
Greg Laurie
#54. People sometimes cling to the strangest beliefs. On the one hand, they believe in an all loving God, but on the other hand they believe He will give you cancer to test or mature you.
Paul Silway
#55. This book is a awsome book and i really gor into it. I couldn't put the book down. Loved it and would recommened it to people that are mature and like horror.
Lisa Schroder
#56. Berlin is in a state of transition. There are lots of people who don't stay here. They pass through. They might not 'clean up,' but they mature. It is a city where people spend a significant time in their lives, and then they move on.
Raf Simons
#57. Yes, people are busy every day creating new karma for themselves. The reason is they overreact to every slight ... Grace and respect are two signs of a mature spiritual individual, whatever his religion or belief.
Harold Klemp
#58. 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
#59. Discovering passion and purpose requires figuring out what works and what doesn't. Mature, successful people establish their on rules. These rules are measured by only one standard: do they work?
Robert A. Glover
#60. I want to be a little more dramatic nowadays. I definitely want something big and funny, but I look for things that can just have people see me in a different light and let me mature as both an entertainer and an actor and a comedian.
Cedric The Entertainer
#61. People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Daniel Goleman
#62. People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.
Lee Westwood
#63. When you have examined all the illusions of life and know that there isn't any reality, but you nevertheless go on, then you are a mature human being. You accept the idea that it is all mask and illusion and that people are in disguise. You see the crumbl
Marguerite Young
#64. I always look up to people like Michael Gambon and Tommy Lee Jones, and I hope that as I mature I will become as craggy as them.
Burn Gorman
#65. People say my content's mature, I don't think it's mature at all. I'm just a normal 20 year old. I'm opinionated.
Amy Winehouse
#66. I am happy being able to play roles with people my age because once you do something really mature there is no turning back.
Lindsay Lohan
#67. Third, it is helpful to seek advice from those who are spiritually mature and solid in their faith. A godly counselor or pastor can assist you in avoiding the common mistakes that confuse many young people.
James C. Dobson
#68. I do believe in God. I think God has given so much power to people, and intelligence, and said, 'Well, you are on your own. Maybe I'm tired, I need a nap. You are mature. Why don't you look after yourselves?' And I think He's been sleeping too much.
Tracy Kidder
#70. 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
#71. You know, the thing about not talking very much is that people think you're mature. They make things up about you.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
#72. Mature, healthy people need other people; they don't isolate themselves ... Needing love isn't being immature. Rather, it gives us the energy we need to go out and slay our dragons.
Henry Cloud
#73. 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
#74. Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!
Anna Kournikova
#75. Life isn't static, and sometimes, we don't realize the value of knowledge or even of people, until farther down the track, when we're mature enough to truly understand.
Nalini Singh
#76. To wear a gray tweed suit, you have to be mature and confident in yourself. Some people can't pull it off.
Dwyane Wade
#77. Wearing a suit doesn't make you mature or knowledgeable. It only makes you seem so ... to people who are immature and/or ignorant.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana
#78. I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.
Ricky Williams
#79. The American people must mature. We are an adolescent lot, expecting solutions to insoluble problems and perfection in our leaders.
George Friedman
#80. I wanted to see people from different age groups, body shapes and personalities wearing Lanvin That is what Lanvin is all about and represents - we dont only do clothes for 20-year-old girls. I love to see mature women wearing Lanvin as well. I love wrinkles, I love grey hair.
Alber Elbaz
#81. I think, when I was younger, I was cooking to impress. Sometimes the dish would have 15 things on the plate. That's cooking only for yourself. As you get more mature, you take all the superfluous things away, and you get the essential flavor. Now I cook for people, not for myself.
Jean-Georges Vongerichten
#82. Because of the enormous responsibility, diabetic kids tend to grow up to be the most mature, most realistic people who have a natural desire to reach outside of themselves.
Mary Tyler Moore
#84. People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
Karen Allen
#85. As we mature, there are people with whom we run out of steam, but there are also those with whom a little straight talking would prove rewarding.
Mariella Frostrup
#86. The American Revolution represented the informed and mature convictions of a great mass of independent, liberty-loving, God-fearing people who knew their rights, and possessed the courage to dare to maintain them.
Calvin Coolidge
#87. On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.
Hendrik Willem Van Loon
#88. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?
Jack Welch
#89. I think as we get older, as we get more mature and more experienced, we do realize it's like, 'blah, blah, blah,' oh there's the information I need, and then 'blah, blah, blah,' right? So we do this triage, I feel like, of what people say to us.
Justine Bateman
#90. I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.
James Marsters
#91. You understand people better if you look at them-no matter how old or impressive or important they may be-as if they were children. For most men never mature; they simply grow taller.
Leo Rosten
#92. Some people should never be told truth. Their stomachs are not mature enough for that type of food
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#93. I think when people make a record with a goal in mind - like taking it to the next level or making them seem more mature - that gets in the way of writing great songs.
Taylor Swift