Maturity Quotes
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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Bill Vaughan
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Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn
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You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.
Erica Jong
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When it comes to love, maturity often gets a bad rap - second love is boring; it's practical. It's what our parents feel for each other.
Jenny Zhang
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I was 35 when I first hit with Star Wars. I had some degree of maturity and some degree of experience, yet physically I still looked young. That had been an impediment early on in my career, but then it turned out to be an advantage.
Harrison Ford
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I'm very clear about what I want to say. I have a great team and it's going well. I have a feeling of maturity.
Christophe Lemaitre
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Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.
Eliphas Levi
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He feared his maturity as it grew upon him with its ripe thought, its skill, its finished art; yet which lacked the poetry of boyhood to make living a full end of life.
T. E. Lawrence
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Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.
Alexei Panshin
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The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.
William O. Douglas
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It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.
Witold Gombrowicz
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The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
T. D. Jakes
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One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.
Virginia Woolf
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It is always easier to take the words of a Jesus, a Gandhi, a Marx, or a Confucius as constituting Holy Writ. This involves less reading, less study, less thought, less conflict, and less independent searching, but it also means less growth toward maturity.
William Coperthwaite
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Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
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You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.
Darrin Patrick
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If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
Benedict Cumberbatch
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I have a twenty-month-old baby, a sixteen-year-old boy - same maturity level.
Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
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Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs
Colette Dowling
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Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.
Geeta Iyengar
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I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.
Nicos Anastasiades
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Forty-nine is extremely young. If forty-nine is not young, that would make me old, and I am not old. I have reached the age of maturity to which all humans must particularly aspire; to dismiss this pinnacle of perfection as old age is to demean all of humankind.
Courtney Milan
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It is certainly a good thing always to forgive with generosity, but it is no doubt just never to forget the wrongs received: they belong to the route that leads to inner maturity.
Fausto Cercignani