Maturity Quotes
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The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
Abel Hermant
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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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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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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'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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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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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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Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.
Bill Vaughan
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
Anthony Doerr
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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
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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.
Jules Feiffer