Maturity Quotes

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.

Solitude is painful when one is young, but delightful when one is more mature.

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

It seems to me that the years between eighteen and twenty-eight are the hardest, psychologically. It's then you realize this is make or break, you no longer have the excuse of youth, and it is time to become an adult "“ but you are not ready.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriends - and he accepts it.

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

You grow up the day you have the first real laugh at yourself.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God. Some people mature into an understanding of God’s will more quickly than others because they obey more readily; they more readily sacrifice the life of nature to the will of God.

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

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.

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit itﾂ熔r when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

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.

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.

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

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

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.

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.

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

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

Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

One stops being a child when one realizes that telling one's trouble does not make it any better.

I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.

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

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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

Adults are obsolete children.

We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

I had found a kind of serenity, a new maturity... I didn't feel better or stronger than anyone else but it seemed no longer important whether everyone loved me or not -more important now was for me to love them. Feeling that way turns your whole life around; living becomes the act of giving.

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me.

The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

A mature person is one who is does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

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.

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.