Maturity Quotes

Being a child sucked. Being a teenager was worse. And being an adult seemed so far away that I had a better chance at swimming the length of the ocean than growing up.

I'm all groan up in America.

Milk for infant as liquor for adult.

Sometimes arriving too quickly is detrimental. It is dangerous to arrive without our character mature or intact.

The Jesus Movement had survived the fad phase and was settling down for the long haul.

When we concentrate on preaching what people WANT to hear we will only succeed in exciting their flash and depressing their spirit.

A woman stood in front of her with the peculiar poise that comes before the discovery of age and after the loss of innocence.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.

Your maturity is based upon your responsibility.

Realize that maturity does not come with age but with acceptance of responsibility.

Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it.

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.

In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids.

Sometimes or most of the time, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

Sometimes or most of the times, we need to remind ourselves that we're not a KID anymore.

Some days, Kaylin fervently wished that she had already passed Adult 101 and could get on with being the person she wanted to be.

Maturing is realizing how many things don’t require your comment.

It’s hard to have done all one’s growing up since 33 — but that’s a damn sight better than not growing up at all.

All mothers breed dead children.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

Gray is not a substitute for black and white. You don’t bump into people without saying you’re sorry. When you shake hands, it’s supposed to mean something. If someone is in trouble, you reach out.

Older people make this mistake all the time with younger people, treating them as a finished product when in fact they are in process.

Treat this crisis as practice for the next crisis.

Conversions were easy, but making full-time disciples was hard.

To be a man, a boy must see a man.

You know after any truly initiating experience that you are part of a much bigger whole. Life is not about you henceforward, but you are about life.

You know your Bible too well and life too little.

I want every one of our members to grow into maturity more quickly than they seem to, but the Lord has taught me to shepherd people, call them to repentance and let Matthew 18:12­–14 play out.

He had the beginning of wrinkles and the easy manner of one who has already made his mistakes.

Maturity turns out to be a question you can never answer with confidence, despite advanced age and wage.

Chronologically she is twelve but emotionally she is older, and intellectually older still.

You look extremely young, " said Miss Nightingale...."Age isn't really a matter of years, I find, " returned Phemie. "I know people twice my age who will never be as old as I am now.

Age brings maturity, experience ripens it.

Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.

Just out of high school, you didn't realize you were creating drama for the sake of drama.

A spirit of satirical frivolity so dominated Britain in the 1960s that one critic feared the country "would sink giggling into the sea.

Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving!And then taking that experience to help others...

Most students have to do some work to resuscitate their childlike curiosity. The best way to do that is to start asking questions again—lots of them.

Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season

The three phases of Santa belief: (1) Santa is real.(2) Santa isn't real.(3) Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus.

To find perfect ripeness, catch it.

We become increasingly aware that the human dream, the human drama, with all its questionable, damaging, and often malevolent intention is not real life at all.

Apply expectations appropriately. Do not assume [all] adults are as grown up and mature as they should be, or appear to be.

If you’re any good at all, you know you can be better.

Maturity, ” Bokonontells us, “is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unlesslaughter can be said to remedy anything.

The job wouldn't be just put the summer, but for a long time, as long as she could see ahead. Once they were used to the money coming in it would be impossible to do without again.

Being popular or not, having company or being alone, are not issues of concern for the developed soul.