Maturity Quotes

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

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

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

It means being able to resist the urge for immediate gratification and opt for the course of action that will pay off later.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.

People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

We had yet to learn that the Devil created youth so that we could make our mistakes, and that God established maturity and old age so that we could pay for them.

So this is where the years of maturity deliver us - to this needy, selfish, unwieldy wish to be somebody else's first and primal other.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.

Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.'

I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

The glamour Of childish days is upon me, my manhood is cast Down in the flood of remembrance.

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them?

I was born 10 years old.

Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments.

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.

The political maturity of a country is measured by what citizens willingly do for themselves and one another.

When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.

No fruit has a more precise marked period of maturity, than love; if neglected to be gathered at that time, it will certainly fall to the ground and die away.

Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.

To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

Vibrato is the badge of tonal maturity.

I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

I certainly think that he [Alan Rickman] was a kind of actor who needed to grow into his maturity to realize the potential, the huge potential that he had.

Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

Love is like the lightning, and your maturity is signaled by the extent to which you can accept the dangers and the power and the beauty of love.

Perfection is always found in maturity, whether it be in the animal or in the intellectual world. Reflection is the mother of wisdom, and wisdom the parent of success.

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.