Most Mature Quotes

#1. I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

Jim Cymbala

#2. Once I turned 40, my whole life changed in the most mature - not boring way but much cooler way. I feel much more like an adult.

Chelsea Handler

#3. A universal truth that most mature women have learned, often the hard way ... When choosing a mate, keep in mind, only nature has the ability to turn sand into pearls. If the relationship isn't happy, healthy, or working, move on ... unless of course you prefer sand.

K.E. Garvey

#4. 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

#5. Men and women are most alike at their most mature and soulful levels. Men and women are most different only at their most immature and merely physical levels.

Richard Rohr

#6. The most mature human insight comes from one's introspection rather than from exterior research.

Hugh Downs

#7. But above that, most mature adults can hold their attention on something for 45 minutes, whether they like it or not. But above that requires training.

Robert Fripp

#8. 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

#9. What Sam Walton did was to go into one of the most mature industries of all and find a way to make it grow, grow, grow, double-digit, month after month, year after year. He did it by innovation, customer focus, and above all, speed.

Jack Welch

#10. I just need to be mad for a little while, okay? I know it might not be the most mature thing, but there it is.

Cynthia Hand

#11. the little governor in most mature adults' brains that told them the difference between polite commentary and insult was completely missing from Fletcher.

Melanie Schuster

#12. I nipped little kisses along his jawline. God, I just couldn't keep my hands or lips off of him. "God, you are the most delicious thing I have ever tasted."
He laughed. "That's something the vampire should be saying to you, not the other way around.

Tish Thawer

#13. Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.

Bill Gates

#14. 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

#15. To be mature you have to realize what you value most ... Not to arrive at a clear understanding of one's own values is a tragic waste. You have missed the whole point of what life is for.

Eleanor Roosevelt

#16. One of the things I enjoy most during the World Cup is watching a team improve, mature, and gel during the course of the tournament.

Rabih Alameddine

#17. The run is already currently occurring, but in slow-motion. Large investors are letting CDs mature, but not renewing them due to the abysmal returns. Most CDs currently pay less than 1%.

Kelly Mitchell

#18. I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

Orson Welles

#19. While we teach knowledge, we are losing that teaching which is the most important one for human development: the teaching which can only be given by the simple presence of a mature, loving person.

Erich Fromm

#20. 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

#21. At the age of 60, I am less experimental and more mature. I want most of all to convey my understanding of life.

Orhan Pamuk

#22. I feel more mature than most people my age.

Leighton Meester

#23. 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

#24. 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

#25. I think Himalayan climbers tend to mature fairly late. I think most of the successful Himalayan climbers have ranged from 28 to just over 40, really.

Edmund Hillary

#26. When faced with a challenging or difficult situation, the best leaders most often respond with courage; less mature leaders, or nonleaders often choose another path-a path with less risk, less conflict, and less personal discomfort.

Mark Miller

#27. I am entirely persuaded that the American public is more reasonable, restrained and mature than most of the broadcast industry's planners believe. Their fear of controversy is not warranted by the evidence.

Edward R. Murrow

#28. Yes, I'm hungry. Horny, too! The thought of feeding from you is a most delectable idea and it's playing havoc with my brain as well as other parts of my body.
He sat up and scooted closer to me ...

Tish Thawer

#29. Not Eve:
Under any condition, in any situation, a mature woman does not need to be checked by her man. She is not childish, but fully capable of [a] self check if she respects the wisdom given to her by The Most High; her name ain't Eve.

T.F. Hodge

#30. 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

#31. It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

George Bernard Shaw

#32. 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

#33. I tend to wait for true stories to mature into fiction. Most of my fiction grew out of a long-germinating real-life situation.

Aleksandar Hemon

#34. Phil has the classic, mature beard. Jase's is kind of red - it's weird, like him! Jep grooms his the most: He's got all these special lotions and perfumes that he puts on.

Willie Robertson

#35. I would've liked to think I looked a little more mature than the rest of the girls in the class. Then again, with the majority of them being PTs, I probably looked the most like a fourteen-year-old."
-Devon
First & Then

Emma Mills

#36. Up until age 40, most men are just not as mature as women. So, it makes sense that a lot of women date up in age a bit.

Patti Stanger

#37. Like most athletes, I like to go home and relax. I try not to bring the game home with me. I might play some video games that are, let's just say, for mature audiences only. And I might get some flak for this, but I like to watch 'Seinfeld.' Sometimes, laughter is the best medicine.

Nick Ferguson

#38. 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

#39. Most males do not mature, they simply grow taller.

Christina Dodd

#40. When a juvenile commits a heinous crime, the State can exact forfeiture of some of the most basic liberties, but the State cannot extinguish his life and his potential to attain a mature understanding of his own humanity.

Anthony Kennedy

#41. One of the most important phases of maturing is that of growth from self-centering to an understanding relationship to others. A person is not mature until he has both an ability and a willingness to see himself as one among others and to do unto those others as he would have them do to him.

Harry Allen Overstreet

#42. Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

Bobby Fischer