Best 161 quotes in «mature quotes» category

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

I think audiences can deal with these mature themes.

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 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 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'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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning and performing music have been rewarding, both physically and mentally. They helped me to mature and grow as a person.

Like a child star whose fame fades as the years advance, many once-innovative companies become less so as they mature.

Listen, Patch, I don’t want to be rude, but—” “Sure you do.” “Well, you started it!” Lovely. Very mature.

LOGANIMITY, n. The disposition to endure injury with meek forbearance while maturing a plan of revenge.

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Mature love is loving, not being loved.

Mature psychological health cannot exist unless we are capable of doubting any form of conceptual certitude about ourselves or anything else.

Mature? Yeah, I get told that a lot. I don't know if it's true. I guess I try to be bright.

President Obama, I voted for him. I think he's a mature politician, but here's what happened. Obama wanted a green economy. He spent billions of dollars of tax money to create a green economy and it didn't happen. The question is why.

Men, to act with vigour and effect, must have time to mature measures, and judgment and experience, as to the best method of applying them. They must not be hurried on to their conclusions by the passions, or the fears of the multitude. They must deliberate, as well as resolve.

My friends tend not to style me, fortunately. But if we're in a public setting, they must do it there. Of course, there has been a maturing process for me and for them. But such is my life. I'm very comfortable with both the role and the life I live in relation to my nearest and dearest.

Precocious talents mature slowly if at all.

Newspapers write about other newspapers with circumspection, ... about themselves with awe, and only after mature reflection.

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Software will get to be somewhat more mature, ah, but it will never be as predictable as most areas of engineering.