Best 161 quotes in «mature quotes» category

Why did I sign up for this?' 'Because we grow by challenging ourselves.

Why wait to forgive and let go only after you have sufficiently wallowed in your despair? Why not forgive and let go now?

With an easy life you can never grow mature; with a tough life you can never remain immature!

Admiration is a youthful fancy will which scarcely ever survives to mature years.

You can’t just be. You have to become.

Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties.

A major threshold is passed when you mature enough to acknowledge what drives you, and to take the wheel and steer it.

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

Also, as I've gotten older and more mature, I've become much more comfortable in my own skin. After 25 years of doing stand-up, that's reflected onstage.

And when you find love, or when you are mature enough to understand it, the feeling you get is gratitude.

An intelligent lady, a little too mature for recklessness, a little too young for caution.

An enormous part of our mature experience cannot not be expressed in words.

Anne laughed and sighed. She felt very old and mature and wise — which showed how young she was.

As I continue to mature and navigate the world, there are so many myths that are dispelled for me.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

A sense of responsibility is the clearest indication of mature leadership.

Bull markets are born on pessimism, grown on skepticism, mature on optimism and die on euphoria. The time of maximum pessimism is the best time to buy, and the time of maximum optimism is the best time to sell.

As we grow older and mature in each incarnation, we are drawn back to samskaras, to previous interests and pursuits.

At HBO, they seem to be well-informed. They make what I think are really quite mature films.

Business is not the supreme virtue, and sanctity is not measured by the amount of work we accomplish.  Perfection is found in the purity of our love for God, and this pure love is a delicate plant that grows best where there is plenty of time for it to mature

Consequently, a young business often grows by large percentages. Mature businesses rarely do.

By the irresistible maturing of the general mind, the Christian traditions have lost their hold.

Especially in times of collective neurosis, the existence of . . . mature people is of crucial importance.

Cynicism is no more mature than naïveté. You're no more mature, just more burned.

God has spoken to me differently through my life, and it has gotten better as I've gotten older. I don't know if that's my reception or his maturing.

Chile has changed. The people have become more mature and they are more conscious of their rights. They want to participate and have a say about things such as if and where a power plant can be built.

...I'd have cheerfully thrown Her Majesty and her hundred pounds of baggage to the curb, but that wasn't mature. ~Cat on Annette

I can be the mayor; I can do it right now. I can go in there right now and put things together. I was truly anointed for that position and I wasn't mature enough in my spirit, in my manhood to handle that responsibility at the time it was given to me.

Elegimos aquellos que nos gusta, con los que amamos, no tenemos voz en el asunto.

I am a complete, mature, self-sufficient being.

I am beginning to consider myself stronger than all those around me, and you know that the good opinion I have of myself has only been reached after mature consideration.

I can't age on the inside, and I'm totally okay with that. I have no need to grow up and see myself as mature.

I have since learned that the most mature believer is the one who is bent over, leaning most heavily on the Lord, and admitting his total inability to do anything without Christ. The greatest Christian is not the one who has achieved the most but rather the one who has received the most.

I don't think I'm going to get so mature that I lose touch with the whatever wounded part of myself that feels the need to be funny. I'm already old enough that I realize that's not going to happen.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

I have been maturing as a teacher. New experiences bring new sensitivities and flexibility.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

I like red wine because it's more sophisticated, more complex and mature. It's a bit like me, no longer young but not old yet either.

I'm 24 years old and yeah, I'm a different person and I'm definitely more mature, but these are the tops that I'm going to keep on wearing.

I think Los Angeles certainly grew out and grew up, but I don't think it matured. It lost the appeal and the hunger and the beauty of its adolescence and went straight to a middle-aged ugly, overfed monster seeking mindless pleasure and being obsessively acquisitive. It's so materialistic. It grew up, but it didn't mature.

I figured I'd discuss my views outside of partying. I went a bit deeper, and the music is a bit more mature.

I'm very much disciplined because I'm more mature. When I was young I just wanted to live, I could jump, I could run, I was quick and I was relentless.

Intuition is natural by-product of flowering of a mature self-esteem and a sense of empowerment – not power over, but power to be

It takes a while for a photograph to mature. That sounds really pretentious, but it takes a time for it to go from here to there.

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

I've spent most of my mature life trying to prove that I'm not irresponsible.

I wish I had been more mature. I wish I had handled the immediate aftermath of the accident involving my family better.

I was not developmentally disabled, but didn't mature at the same rate other kids did.

I would like to see our society mature, and become more rational and more knowledge-based, less emotion-based.