Maturity Quotes

Everyone loses their class when they travel through hell, but only a few will regain it if they remain humble and accept the part they played in their own misery.

~ Shannon L. Alder

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

~ Alain De Botton

A woman, who considers herself to be mature, has every right to insist certain respectful expectations be met by a man, but not if her behavior is consistently childish, selfish, foolish or disrespectful. Man and woman should strive to bring values to the table that are worthy of mutual honor. Mature men won't tolerate nonsense, but baby-boys will.

~ T.f. Hodge

Maturity gives the best understanding of our human head and heart. Every decision we take seems less important after the results of the action.

~ Bhavik Sarkhedi

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

~ Criss Jami

On the other hand, when you grow up you will discover that some of the people in this world never passed beyond the stage of the cave-man.

~ Hendrik Willem Van Loon

Your child may be under more stress than you realize. Remember that situations around to past experiences. Just because you do not see something as a big deal does not mean it is not for your child.

~ Kara G. Durbin

As his children, we were treated as some species of migrant workers who happened to be passing through. My father was the only person I ever knew who looked upon childhood as a dishonorable vocation one grew out of as quickly as possible.

~ Pat Conroy

The Bible was composed in such a way that as beginners mature, its meaning grows with them.

~ Augustine Of Hippo

...at some point we must achieve our identity -we can't be always in adolescence seeking who we are...

~ John Geddes

But it must be said that maturity is not merely something you do with your mind. No, maturity is about how you live your life. It is possible to be theologically astute in yet very immature. It is possible be biblically literate and in need of significant spiritual growth.

~ Paul David Tripp

Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.

~ Erin Mccarthy

People with character are capable of long obedience in the same direction, of staying attached to people and causes and callings through thick and thin. People with character also have scope. They are not infinitely flexible, free-floating, and solitary. They are anchored by permanent attachments to important things. In the realm of the intellect, they have a set of permanent convictions about fundamental truths. In the realm of emotion, they are enmeshed in a web of unconditional loves. In the realm of action, they have a permanent commitment to tasks that cannot be completed in a single lifetime.

~ David Brooks

Personal discontent and lost illusion is the catalysis and the principal theme for every book ever written. The sign of maturity is when a person finally realizes that they would rather live truthfully than persist indulging his or her comforting delusions.

~ Kilroy J. Oldster

Wisdom along with maturity is self understanding and defining one's character through reasoning in a circumstance.

~ Unarine Ramaru

If you are to be, you must begin by assuming responsibility.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

I was not 15 anymore, and choices no longer had that same clear, bright edge to them.

~ Geraldine Brooks

Secrets become harder to keep the older you get. The things you think you can suppress, those idiosyncrasies and fantasies you hope no one will ever discover, become harder and harder to hide as the years advance. Partly it is maturity-the fear of discovery grows smaller, less significant, for you learn that none of us is perfect, that human nature is flawed, that life twists and turns in all sorts of unexpected ways and it is okay to end up in a different place to where you expected.

~ Jane Green

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.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The Girl was gone, buried in the past. She never wanted to hear that name again. She was a woman for better for worse. Whatever the future might bring she could face it as a woman, Ned Ridley's woman.

~ Catherine Cookson

If you think the most courageous and difficult thing you can do is stubbornly stand your ground, try graciously giving in.

~ Richelle E. Goodrich

It is a sign of intellectual maturity to always crawl to conclusions.

~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana

College was to teach me that I was one of life's journeymen, eager to excel but lacking the requisite gifts.

~ Pat Conroy

The narrator finds that as a maturing character grows in stature before her friends that she sees less stature while evaluating herself.

~ Zane Grey

We shall, as we ripen in grace, have greater sweetness towards our fellow Christians. Bitter-spirited Christians may know a great deal, but they are immature. Those who are quick to censure may be very acute in judgment, but they are as yet very immature in heart. He who grows in grace remembers that he is but dust, and he therefore does not expect his fellow Christians to be anything more; he overlooks ten thousand of their faults, because he knows his God overlooks twenty thousand in his own case. He does not expect perfection in the creature, and, therefore, he is not disappointed when he does not find it. ... I know we who are young beginners in grace think ourselves qualified to reform the whole Christian church. We drag her before us, and condemn her straightway; but when our virtues become more mature, I trust we shall not be more tolerant of evil, but we shall be more tolerant of infirmity, more hopeful for the people of God, and certainly less arrogant in our criticisms.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

That was as rough a thing as I ever heard tell of happening to a boy. And I'm mighty proud to learn how my boy stood up to it. You couldn't ask any more of a grown man... It's not a thing you can forget. I don't guess it's a thing you ought to forget. What I mean is, things like that happen. They may seem mighty cruel and unfair, but that's how life is part of the time. But that isn't the only way life is. A part of the time, it's mighty good. And a man can't afford to waste all the good part, worrying about the bad parts. That makes it all bad.

~ Fred Gipson

I have always loved fairy tales, even now at the age when I am supposed to be too grown up and cynical for them.

~ Claire Wong

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the earlypaths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and markedlines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.

~ Alexandre Dumas

An old person knows what it’s like to be young, but a young person doesn’t know what it’s like to be old. There’s no substitute for life experience.

~ Eleanor Brownn

Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.

~ Oliver Gaspirtz

some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to me in the cafeteria. This reflects that fact that I am not ready for college, or I shouldn't be in this college at all.

~ Shankar Vedantam

Don't restrain yourself to mundaneness. You're subject to consciousness that makes you more than animalistic.

~ T.f. Hodge

It was good to be a stranger in a land when you felt aggressive and acquisitive, but when you began to weave your horizons into some kind of shelter it was good to know that hands you loved had helped in their spinning - made you feel as if the threads would hold together better.

~ Zelda Fitzgerald

One must always be aware, to notice—even though the cost of noticing is to become responsible.

~ Thylias Moss

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements - as well as one's deepest failures - is a definite symptom of maturity.

~ Paul Tillich

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

~ Hermann Hesse

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

~ Arthur C. Clarke

When one is young, one venerates and despises without that art of nuances which constitutes the best gain of life, and it is only fair that one has to pay dearly for having assaulted men and things in this manner with Yes and No. Everything is arranged so that the worst of tastes, the taste for the unconditional, should be cruelly fooled and abused until a man learns to put a little art into his feelings and rather to risk trying even what is artificial — as the real artists of life do.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Until recently each generation found it more expedient to plead guilty to the charge of being young and ignorant, easier to take the punishment meted out by the older generation (which had itself confessed to the same crime short years before). The command to grow up at once was more bearable than the faceless horror of wavering purpose, which was youth.

~ Maya Angelou

See him now, so boyish a body and an older head.” (Bhutta)

~ M.k. Bhutta