Maturity Quotes

Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

~ Milan Kundera

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 scandalized and to try to find explanations in charity.

~ Flannery O'connor

High mature digital organizations stretch out in every business dimension.

~ Pearl Zhu

The boy was growing bored and this was a form of growing up.

~ Miranda July

[O]ld enough to be wise yet young enough to be willing to partake in an arduous crusade.

~ Donald Kingsbury

Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are

~ Alain De Botton

The most easiest thing is to leave, abandon or forget somebody.. Difficult is to be with someone, after all it comes with responsibility which not everyone fulfill.

~ Balkrishn Sanmotra

After all, choosing a profession is extremely challenging – it is likely thehardest thing one has to do in the period of reaching maturity.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Don't be too enthusiastic when choosing a profession – think of earningfor life too.

~ Eraldo Banovac

Don't worry, darling. I'll look out for myself. And I've reached an age when I have no problem telling someone to fuck off.

~ Sherry Thomas

Mary, it must be remembered, was very nearly of the same age as Frank; but, as I and others have so often said before, 'Women grow on the sunny side of the wall.

~ Anthony Trollope

I mean it takes a certain kind of maturity to live in the South these days.

~ Harper Lee

One day I finally decided, that there is no point sharing my feelings, You don't enjoy...

~ Ramana Pemmaraju

When you're young, you can excuse many things, hoping they will strengthen with time.

~ Gail Tsukiyama

Damson was also old enough to know that you can never rely on other people to act as you would in almost any circumstance.

~ Josa Young

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 only as good as the reliability of that latticework.

~ Dave Eggers

Self appreciation is a sign of maturity, seeking appreciation is a sign of immaturity

~ Sivaprakash Sidhu

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

~ Brian Spellman

She was intelligent enough to realize that her excitement was childish, but not mature enough to care.

~ China Miéville

I finally decided what I want to be when I grow up - late.

~ Brian Spellman

Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen

~ Maeve Binchy

Well, Jack, we have taken the Macedonian, and your share of the prize, if we get her in safely, may be two hundred dollars; what will you do with it?” Stephen Decatur, commanding the frigate United States, North Atlantic, near the Azores Islands, 1812.“One hundred will go to my mother, sir, and the other I shall spend on schooling.” Jack Creamer, aged ten.

~ Irvin Anthony

If, as PJ O'Rourke ones quipped, giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys, giving actual money and power to teenage boys (and girls) is as predictably disastrous as you would imagine.

~ Mark Hemingway

Was she insane?! She would lose her head before she was 20!

~ Margaret Landon

Realism arises from the maturity of the minds, while Idealism arises from their conformity.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

That's not fair! Charlotte said.I thought you were a grown lady -- you know life is neither fair nor kind.

~ Michaela Maccoll

On Tony Gwynn: it was a wonder that such an exuberant man could be so patient.

~ Jeremy Rozansky

But Jeanie had just gone through the motions. No one would have realized, except perhaps her too-perceptive son-in-law, but that was one of the few perks of maturity: you knew how to dissemble.

~ Hilary Boyd

Individuation is an attainment of spiritual maturity frighteningly seldom attained in today's mono-cultures.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Before, singing was my life, my vocal chords used to lead the way. Now, I'm in-charge.

~ Celine Dion

it's my responsibility to cultivate the man in my son. I can't be passive about that.

~ Randy Alcorn

He gave up. He'd been feeling like giving up for a long, long time. I guess it's maturity, they say it always gets you in the end. I don't seem to have any more principles left, so it's got to be maturity... A broken man, I guess that's what you become, the moment you are no longer a kid.

~ Romain Gary

Maturity is when we can differentiate between our wants and needs and treat them as such.

~ Antwi Isaac - Born2Win.

I have found that as your wisdom and maturity develop, the number of other people you blame for your own circumstances shrinks.

~ Steve Maraboli

I was a man fifteen years older than she, you understand. I had reached that stage in life where I identified with cynical villains in a book.

~ Michael Ondaatje

Maturity is when we differentiate between our wants and needs and treatment them as such.

~ Antwi Isaac Born2Win

This is the man who thinks too much, who stands back from his life and never lives it. He is caught in a web of pros and cons about his decisions and lost in a labyrinth of reflective meanderings from which he cannot extricate himself. He is afraid to live, to ‘leap into battle.’ He can only sit on his rock and think. The years pass. He wonders where the time has gone. And he ends by regretting a life of sterility. He is a voyeur, an armchair adventurer. In the world of academia, he is a hairsplitter. In the fear of making the wrong decision, he makes none. In his fear of living, he also cannot participate in the joy and pleasure that other people experience in their lived lives. If he is withholding from others, and not sharing what he knows, he eventually feels isolated and lonely. To the extent that he has hurt others with his knowledge and technology—in whatever field and in whatever way—by cutting himself off from living relatedness with other human beings, he has cut off his own soul.” Refering the the dark magician energy.

~ Robert Moore

There's a difference between immaturity and not being ready, and there's a certain maturity in admitting that you're not ready.

~ Aprille Legacy

Strong minded people control their propensity.Dependency on anything is a lack of maturity.

~ Ricardo Derose

Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one’s own.

~ Swami Kriyananda