Maturity Quotes

• I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

  

  Chad Urmston
  • Think
  • Appreciation
  • Acceptance

• You don't measure your maturity by comparing yourself with others. You judge maturity by comparing yourself to Jesus.

  

  Darrin Patrick
  • Jesus
  • Judging
  • Compare

• Conversion is in its essence a normal adolescent phenomenon, incidental to the passage from the child's small universe to the wider intellectual and spiritual life of maturity.

  

  William James
  • Spiritual
  • Intellectual
  • Maturity

• Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.

  

  William Morris Davis
  • Growth
  • Stage
  • Certain

• The Kingdom of Hereford was unique in the Ununited Kingdoms for having driving tests based on maturity, not age, much to the chagrin of a lot of males, some of whom were still failing to make the grade at thirty-two.

  

  Jasper Fforde
  • Unique
  • Kingdom
  • Hereford

• The gift of professional maturity comes only to the psychologist who knows the history of his science.

  

  Edwin Boring
  • History
  • Science
  • Gift

• Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

  

  Jules Feiffer
  • Break
  • Maturity
  • Adolescence

• Maturity comes with experience, not age.

  

  Ziad K. Abdelnour
  • Experience
  • Maturity

• The Interros strategy toward various assets generally depends on the stage of their development and level of their maturity.

  

  Vladimir Potanin
  • Strategy
  • Maturity
  • Assets

• Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Culture
  • Manipulation
  • Psychedelic

• What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Life
  • Work
  • Wise

• Now that I'm doing all these big competitions, I've learned to control my nerves and control my mindset, and I think that's where the maturity comes in.

  

  Laurie Hernandez
  • Control
  • Maturity
  • Mindset

• The key to maturity is time and community. Discernment and godly wisdom develop in a community that spans generations. The church is called to be this place where the God's Spirit uses normal patterns and rhythms of the Christian life in a community, so that we may bear fruit like a well-watered tree. Despite common appearances, the church is the place where God's new creation is coming into existence and being sustained by the Spirit like a great vineyard.

  

  Michael Horton
  • Community
  • Church
  • Christian

• I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

  

  Tom Lehrer
  • Maturity
  • Adolescence

• Quien sabe? Not me. The older I get the less I sabe, the less wisdom, maturity and caution I have.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Maturity
  • Caution

• Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Giving

• There are no shortcuts to spiritual maturity. It takes time to be holy.

  

  Erwin W. Lutzer
  • Maturity
  • Shortcuts

• Many people think in terms of either/or: either you're nice or you're tough. Win-win requires that you be both. It is a balancing act between courage and consideration. To go for win-win, you not only have to be empathic, but you also have to be confident. You not only have to be considerate and sensitive, you also have to be brave. To do that-to achieve that balance between courage and consideration-is the essence of real maturity and is fundamental to win-win.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Real
  • Nice
  • Balance

• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Religious
  • Loss
  • Atheism

• Rebel is just as bad a word as maturity.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Word
  • Rebel
  • Maturity

• I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

  

  Gerard Jones
  • Feels
  • Class
  • Mature

• Church is the textured context in which we grow up in Christ to maturity. But church is difficult. Sooner or later, though, if we are serious about growing up in Christ, we have to deal with church. I say sooner.

  

  Eugene H. Peterson
  • Church
  • Deal
  • Grow Up

• I said to myself that maturity consisted in accepting the turn that existence had taken without getting too upset, following a path between daily practices and theoretical achievements, learning to see oneself, know oneself, in expectation of great changes.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Learning
  • Existence
  • Changes

• I get a little scared of words like maturity.

  

  Sean Penn
  • Words
  • Scared
  • Maturity

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