Maturity Quotes

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

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

Antwi Isaac BORN2WIN

Maturity doesn't mean you stop fighting, you just change the things you fight for.

All creatures must learn that there exist predators. Without this knowing, a woman will be unable to negotiate safely within her own forest without being devoured. To understand the predator is to become a mature animal who is not vulnerable out of naivete, inexperience, or foolishness.

Clarissa Pinkola Estés

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

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.

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.

Jon M. Huntsman Sr.

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

Most insensible, corrupt, cheap, disrespectful young girls run after bad, rude, cocky, nonsensical boys, but a mature, educated, thoughtful, virtuos lady opts for a wise, well breed, experienced, humble, modest gentleman.

Michael Bassey Johnson

At thirty a man steps out of the darkness and wasteland of preparation into active life it is the time to show oneself, the time of fulfillment.

Fitting in is about assessing a situation and becoming who you need to be to be accepted. Belonging, on the other hand, doesn’t require us to change who we are; it requires us to be who we are.

I can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

At what point in your life do you say I have had enough... money, food, clothes, these possessions that we keep killing one another for even power and dominance? One advice, look at your age and declare that my age dictates I start doing this thing, I should stop doing this and that, I should say this and not that... in essence grow your brain to reason. Just like that.

We are all daughters of God in various stages of construction.

Shannon L. Alder

Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

If we had to earn our age by thinking for ourselves at least once a year, only a handful of people would reach adulthood.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

People think I am younger then I really am,because I act so immature.

James Hauenstein

Age is only a number. Maturity to a large extent is dependent on your exposure to life, its experiences and your lessons from them.

Omoakhuana Anthonia

Mixing old wine with new wine is stupidity, but mixing old wisdom with new wisdom is maturity.

By drinking, a boy acts like a man. After drinking, many a man acts like a boy.

Mokokoma Mokhonoana

You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.

Kelli Jae Baeli