Maturity Quotes
The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.
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.
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose. Each attribute is good in its own season.
Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.
Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape.
Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.
Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.
art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.
The ideas embodied in the New Deal Legislation were a compilation of those which had come to maturity under Herbert Hoover’s aegis. We all of us owed much to Hoover
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
Old timidity has disappeared, and is replaced by silent, quaint fun, with which his face twinkles all over, as he listens.
There's a difference, you know, between faith and playing make-believe. One will make you grow. The other one will make you sleep.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
Fine # wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.
A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.
Blisters are a painful experience, but if you get enough blisters in the same place, they will eventually produce a callus. That is what we call maturity.
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.
One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.
A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.
A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.
Good to know we're all twelve years old mentally. Keeps things in perspective.
Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.
The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.
There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.
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.
My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.
The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.
The church is the gathering of God's children, where they can be helped and fed like babies and then guided by her motherly care, grow up to manhood in maturity of faith.
