Maturity Quotes

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Maturity is highly overrated.

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Unlearning is the choice, conscious or unconscious, of any real artist. And it is the true sign of maturity.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

Be the change you seek.

No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

Avarice, with all its black attendants, is confessedly a crime of old age, and seldom arrives at maturity till accompanied with gray hairs.

You have attained maturity; display it for us, if you please.

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

The five kinds of grains are considered good plants, but if the grains are not ripe, they are worse than cockles. It is the same with regard to kindness, which must grow into maturity.

One of the blessings of maturity is that it sometimes brings one greater courage to be truthful, regardless of what those who do not understand may think or say

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

You know...it's a hard age. Kids are in that stage where they're beginning to understand the world of adults, without having the maturity of adults to deal with everything going on around them.

Companies are missing out on phenomenal skills and capabilities of experienced older job hunters: wealth of knowledge, expertise, seasoning, maturity. Companies need to be reminded of that.

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned.

There are books that one needs maturity to enjoy just as there are books an adult can come on too late to savor.

Man matures through work which inspires him to difficult good.

The grass is always greener once you don't have to mow a lawn anymore.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

We can grieve over lost powers and memories, or rejoice over gained knowledge and maturity, according to taste.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.

Nature seems to delight in disappointing the assiduities of art, with which it would rear legitimate dulness to maturity; and to glory in the vigour and luxuriance of her chance productions.

While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.

Men must endureTheir going hence, even as their coming hither.Ripeness is all.

And because Eddie knew that was only the truth, he said nothing.

I assumed my first undivided responsibility.

Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.