Top 100 Maturity Is Quotes
#1. Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.
Oren Arnold
#2. Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.
Ann Landers
#3. Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.
James A. Baldwin
#4. Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to "suppress sin".
John Paul Warren
#5. Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
Jim George
#6. 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
#7. Maturity is produced through relationships and community.
Rick Warren
#8. Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
Tobias Wolff
#9. A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.
Denis Waitley
#11. Human maturity is neither offensive nor defensive; it is finally able to accept that reality is what it is.
Richard Rohr
#12. Is it possible that that's all maturity is? Speaking better? Is it possible that everybody in the world, is just a dumb, stupid kid acting like a grown-up because they can sound like one and look like one? It almost seems easy.
Bob Flaherty
#13. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
#14. Maturity isn't something you wrap around you like a coat. Maturity is like the T-shirt you get for walking in a 5K: you can only put it on if you go through the experience first.
Rachel Hollis
#15. 'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
#16. Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
Jack Kornfield
#17. Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
Henri Nouwen
#18. Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'
Criss Jami
#19. Emotional maturity is the ability to stick to a job and to struggle through until it is finished, to endure unpleasantness, discomfort and frustration.
Edward Adam Strecker
#20. There are no shortcuts in growing up. The path to maturity is long and arduous. Hurry is no virtue. There is no secret formula squirreled away that will make it easier or quicker. But stories help.
Eugene H. Peterson
#21. Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.
Wes Fesler
#22. Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
Abigail Van Buren
#23. The True End of not only therapy but Maturity is to learn to live with the inescapable fact that 97% of all human beings are getting fucked and 97% of all faggots are, too.
Larry Kramer
#24. There is within you a lamb and a lion. Spiritual maturity is the ability to let lamb and lion lie down together.
Henri J.M. Nouwen
#25. One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.
Dave Ramsey
#26. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost.
Rajneesh
#27. 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.
Anthony Doerr
#28. A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.
Elizabeth Gillies
#30. Maturity ... is knowing what your limitations are ... Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#31. Age is just a number, maturity is a choice. -Harry Styles
One Direction
#32. Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#34. Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.
Rick Warren
#35. Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun.
Ksenia Anske
#36. Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.
Ann Landers
#37. Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior
Andy Stanley
#38. Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing.
Werner Erhard
#39. Decision maturity is to ensure the right decisions have been made by the right people at the right time to solve the right problems.
Pearl Zhu
#40. I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.
Rob Lowe
#41. To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.
George Meyer
#42. Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own.
Swami Kriyananda
#43. Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you.
Paul Gitwaza
#44. Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
M.J. Croan
#45. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman
#46. Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
Rick Warren
#47. Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.
Sarah Hall
#48. Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
Immanuel Kant
#49. Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!
Lewis Mumford
#50. 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
#51. Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.
Avijeet Das
#52. Maturity is the ability to see and act on behalf of others. Immature people don't see things from someone else's point of view. They rarely concern themselves with what's best for others. In many ways, they act like small children.
John C. Maxwell
#53. The true mark of maturity is when somebody hurts you and you try to understand their situation instead of trying to hurt them back.
Anonymous
#54. One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.
Hugh Prather
#55. Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character.
Criss Jami
#56. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#57. Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.
Bill Johnson
#58. True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.
Larry McMurtry
#59. You, oh mature ones, keep company solely with other mature ones, and your maturity is so mature that it can only chum up with maturity!
Witold Gombrowicz
#61. Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
#62. To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.
Mark Batterson
#63. Maturity is learning not to be run by your emotions. You control your emotions; they don't control you.
Anna M. Aquino
#64. Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#65. Maturity is the balance between courage and consideration. I
Stephen R. Covey
#66. The only sure way to maturity is through pain.
Steve Saint
#67. Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.
J.I. Packer
#68. Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut
#69. 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
#70. The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.
George Saunders
#71. Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. - Tom Stoppard
T.J. Klune
#72. One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
Dennis Wholey
#73. The true test of maturity is not how old a person is but how he reacts to awakening in the mid-town area in his shorts.
Woody Allen
#74. Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.
Susan Maushart
#75. At times, I suspect that the concept of maturity is maintained by a conspiracy of niceness.
Julian Barnes
#76. Jesus taught that spiritual maturity is never an end in itself. Maturity is for ministry! We grow up in order to give out. It is not enough to keep learning more and more. We must act on what we know and practice what we claim to believe.
Rick Warren
#77. Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!
And then taking that experience to help others ...
Tsem Tulku Rinpoche
#78. Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.
John Bevere
#80. One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
Mark Batterson
#81. Maturity ... Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It.
Paul Watzlawick
#82. Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216
Fatema Mernissi
#83. Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.
Paul Watzlawick
#84. Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
#85. Convenience is about changing the law to suit your life but maturity is about changing your life to salute the law
Shubha Vilas
#86. Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.
Kenneth Rexroth
#87. Maybe maturity is merely accepting the tally of all the disappearing options of life.
Miguel Syjuco
#88. The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.
Max Anders
#89. From here on out, there's just reality. I think that's what maturity is: a stoic response to endless reality. But then, what do I know?
Carrie Fisher
#90. 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.
Samuel Ullman
#93. 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.
Benjamin Spock
#94. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?
Kenneth Cain
#96. Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with 'adult.' But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
#97. Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
#98. Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling ... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.
C.S. Lewis
#99. Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.
Sigmund Freud
#100. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
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