Top 60 Maturity Is When Quotes
#1. 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
#3. 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
#4. Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes.
Roy Bennett
#5. Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'
Criss Jami
#6. Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
M.J. Croan
#7. Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
Rick Warren
#8. 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
#9. Maturity is when you accept the fact that two contradictory ideas can exist together.
David Kessler
#10. Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season
Josh Stern
#11. Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216
Fatema Mernissi
#12. Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.
Avijeet Das
#13. When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#15. When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.
Maria Montessori
#16. Aloneness is a wise teacher. Kierkegaard remarked that one sign of spiritual maturity was the ability to be comfortable when alone.
Vernon Howard
#17. Any government, whether it is a democracy, a dictatorship, a communistic or free enterprise bureaucracy, will fall when its hierarchy reaches an intolerable state of maturity.
Laurence J. Peter
#18. The difference between raman and varelse is not in the creature judged, but in the creature judging. When we declare an alien species to be raman, it does not mean that they have passed a threshold of moral maturity. It means that we have.
Orson Scott Card
#19. 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
#20. The sorrows of childhood are mercifully passing, for it is only when maturity has rendered soil mellow that grief will root very deeply. Stephen's
Radclyffe Hall
#21. The efficiency of a hierarchy is inversely proportional to its Maturity Quotient, M.Q. MQ = No. of employees at level of incompetence x 100 Total no. of employees in hierarchy Obviously, when MQ reaches 100, no useful work will be accomplished at all.
Laurence J. Peter
#22. Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Anton Chekhov
#23. I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.
Katherine Paterson
#24. You don't date an annuity, you marry it. An annuity isn't a mutual fund that you buy today and sell tomorrow. Nor is it a certificate of deposit, ready for any new use at maturity. When you buy an annuity, you are making (or ought to be making) a 15- or 20-year commitment, at least.
Jane Bryant Quinn
#25. 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
#26. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman
#27. The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
John C. Maxwell
#28. The de'clic (DEH-kleek) is an aha moment when a child figures out how to do something important on his own...it's a welcome sign of maturity and autonomy.
Pamela Druckerman
#29. 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
#30. My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.
Dwyane Wade
#31. No wonder such a big part of growing old is learning to lower one's expectations, only we call that maturity and wisdom so as not to sound too defeatist. When you are young you demand ecstasy; when you are old you settle for anything short of agony.
Jonathan Hull
#32. Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don't bump into people without saying you're sorry. When you shake hands, it's supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.
Jon M. Huntsman Sr.
#33. Nothing is more foreign than the world of one's childhood when one has truly left it.
Par Lagerkvist
#34. A shop-keeper in good business is quite as well off as a pedlar that travels the country with his wares on his back. Commercial jealousy is, after all, nothing but prejudice: it is a wild fruit, that will drop of itself when it has arrived at maturity.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#35. A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
Mary Renault
#36. When one has reached maturity in the art, one will have a formless form. It is like ice dissolving in water. When one has no form, one can be all forms; when one has no style, he can fit in with any style.
Bruce Lee
#37. Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.
Pia Juul
#38. When we are young the noise of general conversation seems much the most fun. When we grow up we discover the possibilities of the tete-a-tete. In maturity the monologue habit sets is. But now at last there is the chance to investigate the rich depth of the silence when the monologue is suspended.
Nanamoli Thera
#39. Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
#40. I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.
Martha MacIsaac
#41. The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.
Jim Rohn
#42. Wine is a living liquid containing no preservatives. Its life cycle comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death. When not treated with reasonable respect it will sicken and die.
Julia Child
#43. She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood proves conclusively that it is not.
Julian Fellowes
#44. 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
#45. But when the teaching of the Bible is plain, then continuing to maintain an open mind is a sign not of maturity, but of immaturity.
John R.W. Stott
#46. Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.
Paul Watzlawick
#47. You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity
Helen Mirren
#48. How displaced is the sympathy lavished on adolescents. There is a yet more difficult age which comes later, when one has less to hope for and less ability to change, when one has cast the die and has to settle into a chosen life without the consolations of habit or the wisdom of maturity.
Barbara Pym
#49. One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.
Dennis Wholey
#50. Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.
Christian Nestell Bovee
#51. Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."
Ann Landers
#52. Jennifer Fulwiler's story of finding God when you aren't looking for Him is a universal tale which will touch many hearts. With warmth and unflinching candor she leads us through a personal journey of faith and maturity that is as funny as it is affecting.
Raymond Arroyo
#53. When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.
Marianne Williamson
#54. Samaritrophia is only a disease, and a violent one, too, when it attacks those exceedingly rare individuals who reach biological maturity still loving and wanting to help their fellow men.
Kurt Vonnegut
#55. The price of maturity is exorbitant these days. Paying for wisdom with money is one thing, but when time becomes the currency, it's your life at stake.
Anthony Marais
#56. The achievement of psychological maturity is an individual task-and so is increasingly difficult today when man's individuality is threatened by widespread conformity.
C. G. Jung
#57. With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
Bela Bartok
#58. 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
#60. God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.
Gregory Of Nazianzus
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