Maturity Quotes

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

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.

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

It is all too common for caterpillars to become butterflies and then to maintain that in their youth they had been little butterflies. Maturation makes liars of us all.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

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."

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

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.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up.

Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

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

Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216

If all struggles and sufferings were eliminated, the spirit would no more reach maturity than would the child.

While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies.

The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Honesty consists of the unwillingness to lie to others; maturity, which is equally hard to attain, consists of the unwillingness to lie to oneself.