Maturity Quotes

The immature mind hops from one thing to another the mature mind seeks to follow through.

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.

Kenneth Koch

Be content with what you are and wish not change not dread your last day not long for it.

Martial

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

Tobias Wolff

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

Bible

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

Hindustani proverb

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

Doris Lessing

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

Gordon Wallport

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

Leo Baeck

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.'

W.H. Auden

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

John Finley

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Peggy Cahn

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

George Bernard Shaw

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

André Gide

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

F. Scott Fitzgerald

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

Napoléon Bonaparte

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

Virginia Woolf

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

Samuel Johnson

I assume this kid is “normal” sixteen, like all the rest of them, whereas I’m “life can, and probably will, totally screw you” sixteen.

Andrea Cremer

Knowing your responsibilities doesn't make you mature but acting up on it does.

Caroline de Leon

Many things become clearer with the perspective of maturity gained.

Jacqueline Patricks

There, too, she would sit for hours gazing seawards. No tiniest speck of sail that crossed the waters could escape her watchful eyes, and as she watched she dreamed that some day one of these distant sails should bear down towards her, and one should come, in whose hand she would lay her own, and they two would flee to the far East. But as the changeless years went by and brought him not, the girl grew sullen, and a sense of wrong possessed her, for the older she grew, the clearer became her consciousness of a world beyond her, and the greater her longing to seek it.("The Serpent's Head")

Emilia Francis Strong Dilke

Star Trek was an attempt to say that humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate, but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in life forms. […] If we cannot learn to actually enjoy those small differences, to take a positive delight in those small differences between our own kind, here on this planet, then we do not deserve to go out into space and meet the diversity that is almost certainly out there.

Gene Roddenberry

We are afraid of what we will do to others, afraid of the rage that lies in wait somewhere deep in our souls. How many human beings go through the world frozen with rage against life! This deeply hidden inner anger may be the product of hurt pride or of real frustration in office, factory, clinic, or home. Whatever may be the cause of our frozen rage (which is the inevitable mother of depression), the great word of hope today is that this rage can be conquered and drained off into creative channels ……What should we do? We should all learn that a certain amount of aggressive energy is normal and certainly manageable in maturity. Most of us can drain off the excess of our angry feelings and destructive impulses in exercise, in competitive games, or in the vigorous battles against the evils of nature and society. We also must realize that no one will punish us for the legitimate expression of self-assertiveness and creative pugnacity as our parents once punished us for our undisciplined temper tantrums. Furthermore, let us remember that we need not totally repress the angry part of our nature. We can always give it an outlet in the safe realm of fantasy. A classic example of such fantasy is given by Max Beerborn, who made a practice of concocting imaginary letters to people he hated. Sometimes he went so far as to actually write the letters and in the very process of releasing his anger it evaporated. As mature men and women we should regard our minds as a true democracy where all kinds of ideas and emotions should be given freedom of speech. If in political life we are willing to grant civil liberties to all sorts of parties and programs, should we not be equally willing to grant civil liberties to our innermost thoughts and drives, confident that the more dangerous of them will be outvoted by the majority within our minds? Do I mean that we should hit out at our enemy whenever the mood strikes us? No, I repeat that I am suggesting quite the reverse—self-control in action based upon (positive coping mechanisms such as) self expression in fantasy.

Joshua Loth Liebman

They stared at her curiously, and she caught snatches of conversation in two or three languages. It wasn't hard to guess their content, and she smiled a bit primly. Youth, it appeared, was full of illusions as to how much sexual energy two people might have to spare while hiking forty or so kilometers a day, concussed, stunned, diseased, on poor food and little sleep, alternating caring for a wounded man with avoiding becoming dinner for every carnivore within range - and with a coup to plan for the end.

Lois McMaster Bujold

I introduced Nora as my wife, though that was a lie. Old people, that's what they wanted to hear. If you were married, you were mature, reliable, exactly like them, because in their day men and women didn't just live together--they made a commitment, they had children and went on cruises and built big houses on lakes and filled them with all the precious trinkets and manufactured artifacts they'd collected along the way.

T.C. Boyle

It's as if God gave you something-all those stories- and said, "Here you are. Try not to lose it." But children lose everything unless somebody is there to help them, and if your parents are too stupid to do it, maybe i ought to.

Stephen King

He sat watching what went forward with the quiet outward glance of healthy old age.

George Eliot

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

Hilary Boyd

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

Bryant McGill

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

Celine Dion

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

Randy Alcorn

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

Romain Gary

Maturity is when we can differentiate between our wants and needs and treat them as such.

Antwi Isaac BORN2WIN

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

Steve Maraboli

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

Michael Ondaatje

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

Antwi Isaac BORN2WIN

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web of pros and cons about his decisions and lost in a labyrinth of reflective meanderings from which he cannot extricate himself. He is afraid to live, to ‘leap into battle.’ He can only sit on his rock and think. The years pass. He wonders where the time has gone. And he ends by regretting a life of sterility. He is a voyeur, an armchair adventurer. In the world of academia, he is a hairsplitter. In the fear of making the wrong decision, he makes none. In his fear of living, he also cannot participate in the joy and pleasure that other people experience in their lived lives. If he is withholding from others, and not sharing what he knows, he eventually feels isolated and lonely. To the extent that he has hurt others with his knowledge and technology—in whatever field and in whatever way—by cutting himself off from living relatedness with other human beings, he has cut off his own soul.” Refering the the dark magician energy.

Robert Moore

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

Aprille Legacy

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

Ricardo Derose

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

Swami Kriyananda

Venerable age had not, for him, arranged that derelict landscape against which it is privileged to sit and pick its nose, break wind, and damn the course of youth groping among the obstacles erected, dutifully, by its own hands earlier, along the way of that sublime delusion known as the pursuit of happiness. Not to be confused with the state of political bigotry, mental obstinacy, financial security, sensual atrophy, emotional penury, and spiritual collapse which, under the name “maturity”, animated lives around him, it might be said that Reverend Gwyon had reached maturity.

William Gaddis

I don't care that you are not a young twink. I like to think that I'm picking you at your peak.

Alicia Nordwell

All knowledge that takes special training to acquire is the province of the Magician energy. Whether you are an apprentice training to become a master electrician and unraveling the mysteries of high voltage; or a medical student, grinding away night and day, studying the secrets of the human body and using available technologies to help your patients; or a would-be stockbroker or a student of high finance; or a trainee in one of the psychoanalytic schools, you are in exactly the same position as the apprentice shaman or witch doctor in tribal societies. You are spending large amounts of time, energy, and money in order to be initiated into rarefied realms of secret power. You are undergoing an ordeal testing your capacities to become a master of this power. And, as is true in all initiations, there is no guarantee of success. [Magician energy]

Robert Moore

I am not half the man I use to think I was.

Mike Loffredo

There comes a time in your life where youhave to live without the wo/man of yourdreams and have to live with the one in your reality.That is called maturity

Nomthandazo Tsembeni

What we want to do in this moment is rarely what's best for us. We need to take a longer view of life and to realize that to become someone worth becoming, I probably need to be doing things I don't want to be doing.

Vince Antonucci

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

Harper Lee

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy...

Ramana Pemmaraju

Friends leave and life doesn't stop for anybody

Stephen Chbosky

Discipline brings forth maturity.

Steven Chopade

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

Gail Tsukiyama

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

Josa Young

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

Dave Eggers

Grow up to maturity because the worldis waiting for you

Brighton Sbusiso Mabuya

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

sivaprakash Sidhu

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

Brian Spellman

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

China Miéville

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

Brian Spellman

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