Best 720 quotes in «maturity quotes» category

Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension; when he does not torment himself with childish guilt feelings, but avoids tragic adult sins; when he postpones immediate pleasures for the sake of long-term values.... Our generation must be inspired to search for that maturity which will manifest itself in the qualities of tenacity, dependability, co-operativeness and the inner drive to work and sacrifice for a nobler future of mankind.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change.

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

maturity meant thinking about risk long before you pondered the reward, and that success and happiness in life were as much about avoiding mistakes as making your mark into the world.

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Maturity is highly overrated.

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished.

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

Mature people transmit to young people a certain wisdom that comes from maturity, but young people are close to a more intuitive wisdom, and they can give that back to older people who have lost it to their maturation.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.

Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with.

'Mixtape' is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson's film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices. They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.

Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

My experience has nothing to do with creation, I don't think, even though maturity is helpful. In a creation process, there's an intuition that takes you and if it's nourished with awareness and experience, it's great.

My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.

My experience is that as soon as people are old enough to know better, they don't know anything at all.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

Now I truly believe that we in this generation must come to terms with nature, and I think we're challenged, as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature but of ourselves.

Nathan Deal brings the experience, maturity and track record to ensure that Georgia continues to be a great place to live, work and raise a family. That's why he has my support for a second term as governor of this great state.

My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

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.

Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the story designing story tests the maturity and insight of the writer, his knowledge of society, nature, and the human heart.  Story demands both vivid imagination and powerful analytic thought.

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now.

One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

One does not surrender a life in an instant. That which is lifelong can only be surrendered in a lifetime. Nor is surrender to the will of God (per se) adequate to fullness of power in Christ. Maturity is the accomplishment of years, and I can only surrender to the will of God as I know what that will is.

One element of maturity is the realization that we don't get away with anything. Any advantage gained or convenience taken, any private procrastination or insincerity, no matter how subtle or quick in passing, is paid for.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

One thing is certain: the arts keep you alive. They stimulate, encourage, challenge, and, most of all, guarantee a future free from boredom. They allow growth and even demand it in that time of life we call maturity but too often enter it with a childish faith that what we learned in youth is sustenance enough for the years when most men are mentally famished but won't admit it—or when they are apt to curb their hunger with the sops of complacency, security, and the assurance of death.

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, whirling off on a thumb or a motorcycle.