Maturity Quotes - Page 2

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

Maeve Binchy

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

Irvin Anthony

If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, giving actual money and power to teenage boys (and girls) is as predictably disastrous as you would imagine.

Mark Hemingway

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

Margaret Landon

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

M.F. Moonzajer

That's not fair!" Charlotte said."I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

Michaela MacColl

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

Jeremy Rozansky

Sixty is heaven," she [bohemian Aunt Norma] told Jeanie as they sat having tea. "The world is done with you, you become to all intents and purposes invisible, particularly if you are a woman. I like to think of it as your third life. There's childhood, then adult conformity - work, family, responsibility - then just when everyone assumes it's all over and you're on the scrap heap of old age, freedom! You can finally be who you are, not what society wants you to be, not who 'you' think you ought to be.

Hilary Boyd

We owe our strengths & weaknesses to constellations and genes - winning over our imbibed weaknesses result into maturity.

Sandeep Sahajpal

Just 'cuz a kid is crying doesn't mean it's a conversation worth crying over.

Tite Kubo

In other words, the proof of spiritual maturity is not how 'pure' you are but awareness of your impurity. That very awareness opens the door to grace.

Philip Yancey

Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

Rick Warren

She was at that period of her life that almost everyone must pass through, when childhood is done with and a faux maturity, untrammeled by experience, gives one a sense that anything is possible until the arrival of real adulthood proves conclusively that it is not.

Julian Fellowes

Never does a person feel so wise, so mature and so adult as when she is not.

Pia Juul

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

Milan Kundera

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don’t look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

Flannery O'Connor

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

Pearl Zhu

Maturity is the light for the buds to bloom!

Tehreem Rahat

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

Miranda July

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

Donald Kingsbury

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are

Alain de Botton

The most easiest thing is to leave, abandon or forget somebody.. Difficult is to be with someone, after all it comes with responsibility which not everyone fulfill.

Balkrishn Sanmotra

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

Eraldo Banovac

When I say "I am omnipresent" I actually mean that. I can see, analyse and understand what is happening where, why , when and how!! Nothing is hidden. I will forgive all your sins.

Balkrishn Sanmotra

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.

Eraldo Banovac

Being wise does not necessarily make you mature.

Steven Chopade

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

Sherry Thomas

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

Anthony Trollope

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult.’ But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.

Gina Marinello-Sweeney

Some part of getting a second chance is taking responsibility for the mess you made in the first place.

Jack Bauer

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Muriel Barbery

Grown men do not need leaders.

Edward Abbey

The apostolic gift to the body of Christ brings order and maturity.

Sherry K. White

I would prefer," Pat said, his voice a little stiff, as if he expected resistance, "that I be the cosigner on the loan, if you go through with this. I know I'm not a famous billionaire, but I think my credit's just as good."No, you're wrong about that," Tess said, shaking her head.What?"As far as I'm concerned, it's better. I'd much rather do business with you."They shook on it. It was a deal, after all, not a time for hugging.Favors, Arnie Vasso had once said. Your father knows all about favors. He had meant it as an insult, a sly reference to the corners the Monaghans and Weinsteins cut here and there. Now Tess saw it for the simple truth it was: Her father understood favors. How to do them, how to accept them, how to walk away when the price was too steep. It was a lesson she wouldn't mind learning someday.Maybe this was the place to start.

Laura Lippman

We both have a lot of growing-up to do... A lot of the world to see & figure out on our own." -- Leo

Emily Giffin

MaturityA stationary sense . . . as, I suppose,I shall have, till my single body grows Inaccurate, tired;Then I shall start to feel the backward pullTake over, sickening and masterful — Some say, de

Philip Larkin

The narrator analyzes that the maturing, passing away boy within him, "had issued me a challenge as he passed the baton to the man in me: He had challenged me to have the courage to become a gentle, harmless man.

Pat Conroy

It's funny: one starts off thinking one is shrinkingly sensitive & intelligent & always one down & all the rest of it: then at thirty one finds one is a great clumping brute, incapable of appreciating anything finer than a kiss or a kick, roaring our one's hypocrisies at the top of one's voice, thick skinned as a rhino. At least I do.

Philip Larkin

That was what maturity was: accepting things. The more things you accepted, the more mature you were.

David Burr Gerrard

It is true that for many aged saints, gray hair and a good head go hand in hand. But for others, far too many others, length of life only entrenches stubbornness, irritability, and careless ways of thinking and living. Life experience may increase inevitably with age, but without some long-term pattern of receptivity and intentionality, multiplied experiences will only create more confusion than clarity.

David Mathis

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

Carlos Wallace

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

Give someone more time and they'll appear to have done more with it.

Kate Morton

...Teachings are given to different men under different circumstances and in different times... [but] ...the Lord is the same yesterday, today and forever. If a parent commands a little child not to play with matches, and then commands a teenager to light the campfire, is this a contradiction? It's only a question of preparedness - one is ready and one is not.

Chris Heimerdinger

Maturity is about ripeness, thoughtfulness, quality, balance, and wisdom.

Pearl Zhu

I’ve always resented the word maturity, primarily, I think, because it is most often used as a club. If you do something that someone doesn’t like, you lack maturity, regardless of the actual merits of your action. Too, it seems to me that what is most often called maturity is nothing more than disengagement from life. If you meet life squarely, you are likely to make mistakes, do things you wish you hadn’t, say things you wish you could retract or phrase more felicitously, and, in short, fumble your way along. Those “mature” people whose lives are even without a single sour note or a single mistake, who never fumble, manage only at the cost of original thought and original action. They do without the successes as well as the failures. This has never appealed to me and that is another reason I could never accept the common image of maturity that was presented to me.It was only after I came back from Trial that I came to a notion of my own as to what maturity consists of. Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. It is easy now to see the irrelevance of the religious wars of the past, to see that capitalism in itself is not evil, to see that honor is most often a silly thing to kill a man for, to see that national patriotism should have meant nothing in the twenty-first century, to see that a correctly-arranged tie has very little to do with true social worth. It is harder to assess as critically the insanities of your own time, especially if you have accepted them unquestioningly for as long as you can remember, for as long as you have been alive. If you never make the attempt, whatever else you are, you are not mature.

Alexei Panshin

When you’re young, you wish for things in the future, but when you grow old … you wish for things from the past

Lorraine Heath

Maturity means being able to tolerate, on all sorts of planes, uncertainty and not knowing.

Hazel Johns

I have lived a great deal among grown-ups. I have seen them intimately, close at hand. And that hasn’t much improved my opinion of them.

Antoine De Saint Exupery

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.

C.S. Lewis

Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?

Stephen King

There's truths you have to grow into.

H.G.Wells

Nobody smart knows what they want to do until they get into their twenties or thirties.

Michael Crichton

Lately, when I didn't have room to bitch, I didn't. Maturity, at last.

Laurell K. Hamilton

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

Doris Lessing

There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?

Diana Peterfreund

I am sifting my memories, the way men pan the dirt under a barroom floor for the bits of gold dust that fall between the cracks. It's small mining-- small mining. You're too young a man to be panning memories, Adam. You should be getting yourself some new ones, so that the mining will be richer when you come to age.

John Steinbeck

A few people of integrity can go a long way.

Bill Kauth

If a man does not keep pace with hiscompanions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Lethim step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple-tree oran oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

Henry David Thoreau

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Saul Bellow

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