Maturity Quotes

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

On the one hand maybe I’ve remained infantile, while on the other I matured quickly, because at a young age I was very aware of suffering and fear.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

All I want now is to be a nice, clean gentleman. I've proved my point. Now I'm going to set an example for all the nice boys and girls. I'm through talking

All these years I've been feeling like I was growing into myself. Finally, I feel grown.

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

Up till now I always thought bickering was just something children did and they outgrew it. Of course, there's sometimes a reason to have a 'real' quarrel, but the verbal exchanges that take place here are just plain bickering. I should be used to the fact that these squabbles are daily occurrences, but I'm not and never will be as long as I'm the subject of nearly every discussion. (They refer to these as 'discussions instead of 'quarrels', but Germans don't know the difference!)

Not to know what happened before means to remain forever a child.

My overall look on things is a lot more mature than it used to be.

Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day!

It was a bitter moment for us. We weren't two mature parents. We were just two kids playing grown-up. We still needed Mommy and Daddy's permission, blessings, and money to survive.

When you're 40, you can't ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

We're grown ass men, you don't need to be falling all over the place.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc.

No mirror ever became iron again;No bread ever became wheat;No ripened grape ever became sour fruit.Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse.Become the light.

To gain credibility, you must consistently demonstrate three things: Initiative: You have to get up to go up. Sacrifice: You have to give up to go up. Maturity: You have to grow up to go up. If you show the way, people will want to follow you. The higher you go, the greater the number of people who will be willing to travel with you.

Such antics do not amount to a man.

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

When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Sometimes I think I was more in control of my life years and years ago, and yet one should make progress; one should learn more every year and become…well, if not happier, then calmer and more able to handle your problems. But I’m not. Sometimes I just seem to make more problems for myself. I do. It makes me feel I haven’t grown up as much as I should have by now.

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail.

Inexperienced leaders are quick to lead before knowing anything about the people they intend to lead. But mature leaders listen, learn and then lead.

When I was fourteen years old, I was amazed at how unintelligent my father was. By the time I turned twenty-one, I was astounded how much he had learned in the last seven years.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We sit silently and watch the world around us. This has taken a lifetime to learn. It seems only the old are able to sit next to one another and not say anything and still feel content. The young, brash and impatient, must always break the silence. It is a waste, for silence is pure. Silence is holy. It draws people together because only those who are comfortable with each other can sit without speaking. This is the great paradox.

The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.

Not to have knowledge of what happened before you were born is to be condemned to live as a child.

Here’s one of my favorite statements: We are never going to enjoy stability, we are never going to enjoy spiritual maturity until we learn how to do what’s right when it feels wrong, and every time you do what’s right by a decision of your will using discipline and self control to go beyond how you feel, the more painful it is in your flesh, the more you’re growing spiritually at that particular moment.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

We want everybody to act like adults, quit playing games, realize that it's not just my way or the highway.

Although not a very old man, I have yet lived a great deal in my life, and I have known sorrow too bitter and joy too keen to allow me to become either cast down or elated for more than a very brief period over any success or defeat.

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life.

Critics who treat adult as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence.

At fifteen my mind was directed to study, and at thirty I knew where to stand.

Kids instinctively know - although they will argue to the contrary - that they really are not mature enough to make good decisions on some important issues.

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

A boy spends his time finding a girl to sleep with. A real man spends his time looking for the one worth waking up to.

Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older. That's the truth of it. They honor their credit cards, they find parking spaces, they marry, they have the nerve to have children, but they don't grow up.

I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

I've apparently been the victim of growing up, which apparently happens to all of us at one point or another

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

I feel my brains, like a pear, to see if it's ripe; it will be exquisite by September.

Nothing is more characteristically juvenile than contempt for juvenility. . . youth's characteristic chronological snobbery.

Young people love what is interesting and odd, no matter how true or false it is. More mature minds love what is interesting and odd about truth. Fully mature intellects, finally, love truth, even when it appears plain and simple, boring to the ordinary person; for they have noticed that truth tends to reveal its highest wisdom in the guise of simplicity.