When You Mature Quotes

#1. A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

Andrew Stanton

#2. When you mature intellectually we may not be able to communicate. When you mature emotionally you may not even want me.

Daniel Keyes

#3. When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.

Criss Jami

#4. Sometimes when life kicks you in the ass, you have to kick it back. In the nuts. With steel-toed boots. Essentially, if someone, anyone, kicks you, it is very mature to take the high-road and not kick them back. But it's not fun. And I'm all about fun. One hundred percent fun. One fundred percent.

Sara Wolf

#5. Brands mature over time, like a marriage. The bond you feel with your spouse is different than when you first met each other. Excitement and discovery are replaced by comfort and depth.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#6. Good friends will allow you to be as innocent and free as a child when in private, and as wise and mature as an adult when in public.

Criss Jami

#7. You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Joseph Campbell

#8. Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your goodness, your rightness, your church attendance, and all of the wise, moral, mature decisions you have made and actions you have taken.

Rob Bell

#9. There will come a time in your life when you lose something that matters to you. You'll fight for it and you won't win. But what really matters isn't the war you're waging, it's that you don't lose the person you are in the midst of the battle.

J. Sterling

#10. My take is you "should" become a parent if and when you're ready for it! Could be when you're twenty or when you're forty. I don't think age really matters if you are mature enough and have enough love within you.

Hannah Sullivan

#11. You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

Eddie Vedder

#12. When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

Pope John Paul II

#13. And if you can come through that and still have some connection to your joy you felt when you were a child that's a very mature kind of a joy that I find inspiring. And Jennifer Lowrence has all that in her, and I've watched her have to go through it even in the last few years.

David O. Russell

#14. When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

Elisha Cuthbert

#15. You only mature when you face problems you can't deal with.

Ralph Waite

#16. When you have a kid, you have to be more mature.

Sofia Vergara

#17. 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

#18. It's almost worse because you think that you're mature and classic when you're in the newsie cap jazz phase. It's not a great look, a young person trying to seem old and mature and cultured. That's a summarily not-cool look.

Nick Kroll

#19. My ex-girl told me, "I love you so much, and I know it's just a phase you're going through." When a woman comes at you like that, you look at her as being so mature because she understands if I'm cheating, it's not her problem, it's mine. When a man cheats, it's not a reflection of what she's not.

Tyrese Gibson

#20. 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

#21. When you get older, you mature, and you start liking flowers. Although I try and keep it manly.

David Beckham

#22. The nice thing about being an adolescent is being able to make mature decisions when you need them and being able to just flow alone with life when you don't.

Michael A. Stackpole

#23. The mark of a mature programmer is willingness to throw out code you spent time on when you realize it's pointless.

Bram Cohen

#24. 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

#25. Toxins love to get you while you're young. Lead, mercury, secondhand smoke and sundry other environmental nasties do a lot more damage when tissue is immature, vulnerable and growing than when it's mature and comparatively fixed.

Jeffrey Kluger

#26. When you're a first-round pick and you get to the big leagues at 22, there's almost a sense that you've got to mature.

Evan Longoria

#27. I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself.

John Le Carre

#28. 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

#29. When you're in the entertainment industry, you have to be more mature, be able to hang with the adults.

Alexander Gould

#30. When it comes to women, get your life together first. Put on your own oxygen mask first. Figure out who you are. Mature. And then go find somebody to share that life with.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#31. When you are a mature woman, the wolf-whistles from construction workers stop, and that's a scary thing.

Arianne Richmonde

#32. 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

#33. To be mature and complete, not lacking anything, you must persevere. Perseverance is developed when your faith is tested. Your faith is tested when you face trials of many kinds. So when you do, be joyful. Pure joy, the greatest joy, only happens through the greatest trials.

Matt Ham

#34. It used to be the custom in this country that when you had made a career and were mature in judgment, you went to the Senate to give something back t the Republic. The idea that at age 25 you go out and buy a blow dryer and starting running for office is not what the founders had in mind

Gore Vidal

#35. Dating is like trying to make a meal out of leftovers. Some leftovers actually get better when they've had a little time to mature. But others should be thrown out right away, No matter how you try to warm them up, they're never as good as when they were new.

Lisa Kleypas

#36. What business could be mature when you have economies with more than 2 billion people in India, China and Southeast Asia?

Jack Welch

#37. 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

#38. You are mature when you know what is foolhardy and what is courage.

Bernard Williams

#39. You can't predict the number of years it will take for someone to find themselves, to mature into their own voice. When I got to be 30, I was finally writing like Danny Brown.

Danny Brown

#40. And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

Donald Miller

#41. I wanted to tell you that the man who is your father, the man who gave you life, has found a woman who is in heaven when she's in his arms.

Scott Spencer

#42. 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

#43. It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

Elizabeth George

#44. You were honest and hardworking and kind. You were polite and patient and more mature than any guy I'd dated before. And when we were together, you listened in a way that made me feel like I was the only woman in the world. You made me feel complete and spending time with you just seemed right.

Nicholas Sparks