Top 100 Quotes About Maturity
#1. The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
Paul Theroux
#2. Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#3. Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.
M.J. Croan
#4. Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman
#5. Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
Dave Ramsey
#6. They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity.
Ari Shavit
#7. I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.
Kurt Sutter
#8. Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.
Rachel Carson
#10. Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.
Terence McKenna
#12. What is Imagination but mental mischief of a kind, and why can't the youngster protectively occupy himself with invention of that sort before maturity works him over?
Ivan Doig
#13. She was probably used to testing her maturity and newfound confidence around hesitant boys closer to her age, but the lesson to be learned was that unlike boys who are intimidated by feminine boldness, men like me are inflamed by it.
R.S. Grey
#14. Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
Harry Herbert Miller
#15. When people hear my daughter and when they know about her wisdom and maturity, they think that her father must have been sitting with her and mentoring her. They think he would have spent a lot of time in bringing her up. They think he would have constructed her.
Ziauddin Yousafzai
#16. Strong minded people control their propensity.
Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.
Ricardo Derose
#17. You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.
Darrin Patrick
#18. -a face as suggestive of early maturity as his brother's was of lingering boyishness.
Khaled Hosseini
#19. I'm sorry if I have the emotional stability of a teeter-totter right now, but that's better than you, who has the emotional maturity of a rock.
Chanda Hahn
#20. Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
Rick Warren
#21. Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
Julia Child
#22. Through solving problems we improve and develop ourselves, reach maturity and strengthen our will
Sunday Adelaja
#23. Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command
Ambrose Bierce
#26. 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
#27. The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.
Howard G. Hendricks
#28. You may occasionally be hurt by the sort of cavalier cruelty of commentary if you go into online forums, so there's definitely a maturity about not seeking validation from everyone, every single time.
Guillermo Del Toro
#29. The proof of spiritual maturity, Tolstoy contended, is not how "pure" you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.
Philip Yancey
#30. Critics are a kind of freebooters in the republic of letters
who, like deer, goats and divers other graminivorous animals, gain subsistence by gorging upon buds and leaves of the young shrubs of the forest, thereby robbing them of their verdure, and retarding their progress to maturity.
Washington Irving
#31. Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.
Jim Morrison
#32. The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover's aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover
Rexford Tugwell
#33. Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.
Erin McCarthy
#34. It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.
Quintilian
#35. Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence!
Immanuel Kant
#36. 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
#37. No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.
Margaret Mead
#38. 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
#39. I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.
Jennifer Lawrence
#40. It may not quite reflect the maturity of "Thy will be done," but it is better to be an honest mess before God than a dishonest "saint.
John Ortberg
#41. Take a strict view of their excrements, and, from the colour, the odour, the taste, the consistence, the crudeness or maturity of digestion, form a judgment of their thoughts and designs; because men are never so serious, thoughtful, and intent, as when they are at stool ...
Jonathan Swift
#42. With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity.
Rae Lori
#43. Maturity means the ability to see what is important and what is not.
Vatsal Surti
#44. For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.
W. Somerset Maugham
#45. I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
Karl Marlantes
#46. Maturity is when you are happy loving someone from a distance.
Avijeet Das
#47. The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
Wendell Berry
#48. Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.
Sydney J. Harris
#49. The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.
John Noble Wilford
#50. On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Amy Lowell
#51. O thank you, Uncle Omar. Thank you for instilling a helpless youth with such grave suspicions of women and all their works, that here and now, in my maturity, in my thirty-second year, I cannot confront a lovely and half-naked lady without getting cramps in my toes and saying gahr.
John D. MacDonald
#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. The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.
Nicholas Monsarrat
#55. Choosing your flirtations consciously shows emotional maturity.
Amy Leigh Mercree
#56. Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
Indira Gandhi
#57. I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.
David Kay
#58. That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.
David Burr Gerrard
#59. 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
#60. You yourself must endure the painful process of change. There is much more at work here than your instant maturity. God wants to build a relationship with you that is based on faith and trust and not on glamorous miracles.
Gene Edwards
#61. 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
#62. Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas.
Arthur C. Clarke
#63. He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
T.E. Lawrence
#64. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.
Pearl Zhu
#65. And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.
Leo Tolstoy
#66. Autumn
The season between summer and winter,
comprising in the Northern Hemisphere
usually the months of September,
October and November.
A period of maturity.
Cecelia Ahern
#67. Oftentimes, those special brains, the ones that are capable of focusing more intently than others, do so at the expense of emotional maturity
Dan Brown
#68. Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.
Francis Bacon
#69. The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Tillich
#70. Renewal in your thinking leads you to a place of maturity where you consider how your thoughts influence you.
Suzanne Eller
#71. But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
Madeleine L'Engle
#72. Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.
Bill Johnson
#73. When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn't just join a local church because it's a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it's the expression of what Christ has made him - a member of the body of Christ.
Mark Dever
#74. The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.
Joseph Goebbels
#75. Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.
Marlon Brando
#76. The capacity to form attachments on equal terms is considered evidence of emotional maturity. It is the absence of this capacity which is pathological. Whether there may be other criteria of emotional maturity, like the capacity to be alone, is seldom taken into account.
Anthony Storr
#77. Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.
John Wooden
#78. 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
#79. Age-class running, as you know, is completely unreliable. It's based on this artificial thing, which is that people who are the same age have the same level of physical maturity. Which just isn't true.
Malcolm Gladwell
#80. There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.
Erwin W. Lutzer
#81. People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and - ' 'And money.
Kathleen Tessaro
#82. Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.
Brian Doyle
#83. Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.
Howell Raines
#84. 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
#85. The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.
Sherry K. White
#86. Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#87. If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
B.K.S. Iyengar
#88. 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
#89. If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.
Jaggi Vasudev
#90. A true initiate will never force anyone who has not reached a certain level of maturity to accept his truth.
Franz Bardon
#91. I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.
Robbie Robertson
#92. 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
#93. I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.
Cristina Kirchner
#94. To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity.
Edward Weeks
#95. There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'
Dwight D. Eisenhower
#96. When women reach the age of maturity, Mother Nature sometimes overworks their frustration to the point of irrationalism. Like themiddle-aged man ... who finds himself looking longingly at a girl in her early twenties.
Mark Hanna
#97. Maturity implies otherness ... The art of living is the art of living with.
Julius Gordon
#98. Our humbling experience of sin is a mark of maturity. To be humbled by sin is to be marked by grace. Christian holiness is not the eradication of the sin nature, at least not on this side of eternity.
Tony Reinke
#99. The disease which had thus entombed the lady in the maturity of youth, had left, as usual in all maladies of a strictly cataleptical character, the mockery of a faint blush upon the bosom and the face, and that suspiciously lingering smile upon the lip which is so terrible in death
Edgar Allan Poe
#100. We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.
Seth Klarman
