Maturity Quotes
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.
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I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.
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It is time which imparts strength to all things and brings them to maturity.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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When your maturity is derived from circumstantial factors other than faith, your level of maturity would continue to fluctuate rather than being stable. This is why I am enabled to maintain a balance and stable approach to the challenges that come my way every day. I am not moved by what people say or do concerning my relationship with God.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for - if you are honest - you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.
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Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
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Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
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The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.
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Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.
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If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.
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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.
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I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.
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Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
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Looking back at my career, I wish I knew then what I know now... that gender bias is built into the system, and it's unconscious in many ways. I wish I had the maturity and courage to have pushed back more. I was always trying to be a 'good girl' and play by the rules.
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I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didn't have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.
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You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
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With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure.
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Youth condemns; maturity condones.
