Mature Quotes

If you feel that you can follow a few little rules or some clever gimmicks to make you a mature Christian, then you have fallen into a subtle trap of legalism.

As we mature spiritually, we exhibit a growing capacity to care for and appreciate one another in the body of Christ, regardless of our differences.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love - now you are love.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.

Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them.

Responsible persons are mature people who have taken charge of themselves and their conduct, who own their actions and own up to them--who answer for them.

Exxon, Coca-Cola, BHP Billiton and News Corporation have much more say in organising the global agenda than the planet's 5 billion mature-age voters without a ballot box.

You see, dancers are quite mature people because they start performing so early. They become professionals when they start to take everyday classes.

If you can last until you're 40 years old, hopefully you'll be mature enough to figure out the rest of the years.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

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."

Almost all enduring success comes to people after they are forty. For seldom does mature judgment arrive before then.

You can drive at 16, go to war at 18, drink at 21, and retire at 65. So who can say what age you have to be to find your true love?

With anything, you have to approach from an educational, mature standpoint.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

I want to be the first lady to land a quadruple jump in competition. As I grow older, I know that my skating style will develop and mature.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.

In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

Why are people afraid of getting older? You feel wiser. You feel more mature. You feel like you know yourself better. You would trade that for softer skin? Not me!

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

The important thing is that all stages from adolescent to mature man, work is done to spread the sporting spirit.

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.

To partly remain a child: that is to be really mature.

You'll never be a mature Christian until you understand that God remembers his promises and forgets your sins.

Being vintage like a fine wine Should make you proud of being old And being mature like a cheese Certainly explains the mould! Fester on undaunted into your 7th decade

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust.

Sometimes the problem has to mature before the solution can mature.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Self-responsibility is the core quality of the fully mature, fully functioning, self-actualizing individual.

It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption.

I am so bored with seeing stories about a mature man of 65 falling in love with a beautiful girl of 32.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

As I became more mature I realized that failure is part of success.

Inner liberty can be judged by how often a person feels offended, for you can no more insult a mature man than you can paint the air.

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

To mature is in part to realize that while complete intimacy and omniscience and power cannot be had, self-transcendence, growth, and closeness to others are nevertheless within one's reach.

Music actually meant something when I started doing it. Too bad I wasn't mature enough to write anything that meant anything.

I don't know if any of us are mature enough to handle the brutal honesty of what's inside other people's heads.

A lot of your personality is formed before you're 12, obviously, but only a few of my plays use characters from my childhood. The more mature plays are affected only by my adult experiences.

Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen.

I am not mature enough as a reader to enjoy a book in which I hate all the people.

All wars are boyish, and are fought by boys, The champions and enthusiasts of the state: Turbid ardors and vain joys Not barrenly abate-- Stimulants to the power mature, Preparatives of fate.

Heartbreak is how we mature... There is almost no path a human being can follow that does not lead to heartbreak.