Top Maturity Quotes

I think I may have to grow up without growing old. I think we're going to have to define differently what I'm going to be. We're going to have to define my growing up differently.

At what point in your life do you say I have had enough... money, food, clothes, these possessions that we keep killing one another for even power and dominance? One advice, look at your age and decla...

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 can teach you how to respect but self-respect is self taught.

Through solving problems we improve and develop ourselves, reach maturity and strengthen our will

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.

In a matter of weeks, he had learned that without suffering and doubt, there can be no whole human being.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Life can be full of despair without intimacy from a youth's family members and they need to understand that values of caring can help an individual to overcome his or her struggle as he or she develop...

In every experience we get to choose either love or fear as a response. Your character is formed by the percentages of those choices, which then forms your life.

Until you're grown-up they send you to reform school. After you're grown-up they send you to the penitentiary.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

The clash is born of the fact that the child within me sees with undiluted clarity what the adult within me is incessantly working to deny. And in these most vexing moments, to be the adult is to defe...

When you're in your twenties in a new city where no one's from here, we're all sort of orphans. The only people that you can count on our bunch of people that you work with and that you know. You're o...

I've got a pretty good idea what children are, and we're not children. Children can lose sometimes, and nobody cares.

From 15 to 18 is an age at which one is very sensitive to the sins of others, as I know from recollections of myself. At that age you don’t look for what is hidden. It is a sign of maturity not to be...

Not all dreams are possible or realistic. When this happens you have to bade them farewell. This isn't failure, but it's a sign of maturity and learning on your part. All you need to do is rethink wha...

That boy made me realize, for a while at least, that my parents were wrong, and I didn't have to be like them.

Information can be harmful when you're not ready for it. ['The Murder Room: The Heirs of Sherlock Holmes']

Grown men do not need leaders.

The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with w...