Quotation Explorer - 'Maturity'

What goes on in our head solely determines the level at which we function in society, our physical health, and the degree of our mental and emotional stability and maturity. - Renee Cefalu
Success is attached to mentality of a man's maturity - Buhari S.I
The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardener objected that the tree was slow growing and would not reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, 'In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon!' - John F. Kennedy
Age is a bunch of bullshit, the wise parts, the inner soul, and the inner maturity is what we should really be focused on. - Mekiah Johnson
The height of your maturity and sagacity depends on your ability to see the beauty in ugly situations. - Michael Bassey Johnson
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. - Publilius Syrus
A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity. - Neal A. Maxwell
Some tragic mistakes are often made by those who acquire the reins of control before their maturity is adequate to handle it. - James C. Dobson
Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we get. I think that’s why so many adults read YA: we’re never done coming of age. - Betsy Cornwell
We lied to ourselves thinking in our minds we knew everything. We were deceived in believing that youthful enthusiasm could replace wizened maturity. - Anna M. Aquino
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. - Jules Feiffer
True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Maturity dare to be the first to shine as a light in the dark. - Kishore Bansal
We must learn not to disassociate the airy flower from the earthy root, for the flower that is cut off from its root fades, and its seeds are barren, whereas the root, secure in mother earth, can produce flower after flower and bring their fruit to maturity.
A sage never measures people's maturity by their age, but fools do and offer them accordingly their wage. - Anuj Somany
Learning is one letter short of maturity. - Eddie Mhone
If any choose to maintain, as many do, that species were gradually brought to their maturity from humbler forms ... he is welcome to his hypothesis, but I have nothing to do with it.
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure. - Jaachynma N.E. Agu
Time served does not guarantee maturity. - Doug Glanville
to make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity - William Arthur Ward
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity. - Paul Tillich
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. - Robertson Davies
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do. - Elizabeth George
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life. - Roy T. Bennett
Mature adults gravitate toward new values and understandings, not just rehashing and blind acceptance of past patterns and previous learning. This is an ongoing process and maturity demands lifelong learners. - David W. Earle
It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions. - Mokokoma Mokhonoana
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. - M.J. Croan
I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. - Auliq Ice
Your maturity is based upon your responsibility. - David Cwenar
Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance. - Unarine Ramaru
To live with fear and not be afraid is the final test of maturity. - Edward Weeks
I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days. You don't have it yet, but you have a shadow of the beginnings of it. You haven't the humbleness of mind-" "I thought the fear of the Lord was the beginning of wisdom.""It's the same thing. Humility. - Harper Lee
Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play. - Friedrich Nietzsche
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses, and start making changes. - Roy Bennett
Almost all great writers have as their motif, more or less disguised, the passage from childhood to maturity, the clash between the thrill of expectation and the disillusioning knowledge of truth. 'Lost Illusion' is the undisclosed title of every novel. - André Maurois
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself. - Nicole Scherzinger
Supreme level of maturity is needed to realize; that, conveyance of family life, depends on equally maintained pair of wheels and both crediting each other, for their functioning and struggles as well. - Aniruddha Sastikar
So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity. - Wayne Gerard Trotman
The principles now planted in thy bosom will grow, and one day reach maturity; and in that maturity thou wilt find thy heaven or thy hell. - David Thomas
At sixteen I was stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self- confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence? - Jules Feiffer
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
ritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren
Age doesn't determine maturity. It's the depth of life that does, not its duration. - Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
Always stay young with your looks, your thoughts should speak your maturity - Binoy Boban
My message for all my readers is: Don't believe in those who claim that youth is a passing disease you just have to get rid of. Don't believe, that maturity is a goal and an asset to go after. Nothing will ever be ready, that is what makes life interesting. Read! - Tuula Kallioniemi
The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity. - Wayne Cordeiro
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
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. - Kurt Vonnegut
Honor your commitments, it is not always a fun thing to do, but that is what maturity does best. - Efrat Cybulkiewicz
Spiritual maturity is not measured by the years that you have spent in church, rather by your attitude before people different from you. - Paul Gitwaza
The purpose of life is to fight maturity. - Dick Werthimer
DISOBEY, v.t. To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command. His right to govern me is clear as day, My duty manifest to disobey; And if that fit observance e'er I shut May I and duty be alike undone. Israfel Brown - Ambrose Bierce
Age is no guarantee of maturity. - Lawana Blackwell
Age brings maturity, experience ripens it. - Vimal Athithan
Maturity is for serious people. Let us be immature and have endless fun. - Ksenia Anske
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything. - Kurt Vonnegut
Marriage requires maturity. Marriage requires two people who, for the rest of their lives, are willing to listen, to really listen to each other. And that marriage requires the greatest of all things, compromise. - Coach Taylor
Spiritual maturity keeps you from being easily swayed in your beliefs - Jim George
Spiritual maturity testifies of one’s level of patience - Sunday Adelaja
Play is an essential function of the passage from immaturity to emotional maturity. Any individual without the opportunities for adequate play in early life will go on seeking them in the stuff of adult life.
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!
A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage. - C.D. Darlington
If a child shows himself to be incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind. - Don Marquis
A team goes through stages of birth, childhood, puberty, adolescence, maturity, and aging in its development. - Sunday Adelaja
‎Reconciliation‬ is the most significant level of life's maturity! - Paul Gitwaza
Nobody truly becomes an adult. The child we have been is always there, deep inside of us. As time passes, we think we're growing, but maturity is only an illusion; a hindrance to our free child soul. - Jirō Taniguchi
experience is nothing but maturity. maturity is nothing but experience - narayan raju rolonseals
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. - Paul Tillich
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. - Ann Landers
It was easier to come to maturity when there were more well-defined philosophical options. - David Brooks
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity. - Tom Stoppard
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. If you are capable of suppressing your sins or managing them, you would have no need for a Redeemer. - John Paul Warren
Grades don't measure Intelligence, Age doesn't define Maturity - An intelligent student
Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. - Roy Bennett
Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. - Maya Angelou
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. - Matt Chandler
What goes on in our heads solely determines the level at which we function in society, our physical health, and the degree of our mental and emotional stability and maturity. - Renee Cefalu
With mortal age comes the immense need for childish charms. Like a fine wine, sweetens with maturity. - Rae Lori
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. - Ann Landers
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity. - George Bernard Shaw
Spiritual maturity is not defined by how well one applies Biblical principles to suppress sin. - John Paul Warren
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