Top Maturity Quotes

If as an adult I have scolded and then silenced the child within me, I contend that I am neither an adult nor a child. Rather, I am just plain ignorant.

To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.

Maturity Definition

(n.) The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

(n.) Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Be present and aware of the privilege of living.

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

We're a society of brats, fighting over the same toys. That, for me, is the closest we come to be inherently evil as a people. It leads to selfishness, inflexibility, and impatience -- among so many o...

It is in building the best of our abilities that we ultimately destroy the worst of our liabilities.

Joanna's quietly intent nature contrasted sharply with Holly's vibrancy. While Miss Brewster's flirtation stroked his ego, the spiritual maturity Miss Robbin's exhibited commanded his admiration and r...

To realize your potential you must look beyond the end of yourself, realizing that where you end is most likely where you actually begin.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Children have empty erasable white boards upon which big people write indelibly imprinted messages into their tender subconscious minds.

The goal of a life purpose is not what you will create, but what it will make you into for creating it.

Though sometimes you need to explain yourself with bitter or better words, he who knows how to speak how matured he is with silence in his most tempting moment is truly a matured person.

Faith is the most unexercised muscle known to man.

There is this common notion that young conservatives are the few, that most people had liberal worldviews when they were young. If this is true, then it is with great irony that a number of old libera...

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.

A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.

Maturity is when you can understand someone's silences and the pauses between those silences...

So dangerous it is for a man to come into the acquisition of great fortune before he matures in virtues and principles.