Maturity Quotes

Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

Adolescents need to be reassured that nothing-neither their growing maturity, their moods, their misbehavior, nor your anger at something they have done-can shake your basic commitment to them.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Maturity is produced through relationships and community.

Pubic hair is proof of sexual maturity and if your partner finds that a turn-off, you should probably reconsider that partner.

I sometimes read that it's time for German democracy to finally grow up. I don't see it as a sign of maturity if we treat military missions as something normal.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

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.

Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.

Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

Nothing is so fragile as thought in its infancy; an interruption breaks it: nothing is so powerful, even to overturning empires, when it reaches its maturity.

I get a little scared of words like maturity.

When stability becomes a habit, maturity and clarity follow.

Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

Mature means neither "too soon" nor "too late," but something between the two.

The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

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.

A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

A young fellow ought to be wiser than he should seem to be; and an old fellow ought to seem wise whether he really be so or not.

If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

A woman should be an illusion

The older you get, the more you understand how your conscience works. The biggest and only critic lives in your perception of people's perception of you rather than people's perception of you.

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

Never take advice about never taking advice. That is an old vice of men - to dish it out without being able to take it - the blind leading the blind into more blindness.

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.

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