Maturity Quotations

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe.

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are.

The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity.

'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one .

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

Most women are not as young as they are painted.

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.

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West.

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You're not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you're at peace with yourself. Learning life's lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.

I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

When you grow up your mother says, 'Wear rubbers or you'll catch cold.' When you become an adult you discover that you have the right not to wear rubbers and to see if you catch cold or not. It's something like that.

The beauty of the space station, and of human spaceflight, is that it is now at a level of maturity where you can invite people on-board, which is what I worked so hard to do on social media and all the videos I made.

The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

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

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Growing up is not being so dead-set on making everybody happy.

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.

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

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

I was so proud of our defensive line. The stepped in and played well, showing a lot of maturity and composure.

When I came back to Mr. Nicks, he said a skater who is older and more mature should have more input and responsibility for her skating. I feel I set my game plan and goals. He is always the one who is telling me to slow down a little bit.

One of those guys will step up and do a nice job in there. But the maturity and being in a game situation definitely goes to Eric.

Nonie and I are not talking about a utopian future where everybody will hug and kiss and everything will be behind us. We're talking about teaching another way to look at 'the other' with tolerance and the maturity to acknowledge ideas outside the culture of hatred around us.

One of our concerns with Shields was his being in big league camp for the first time. You know, trying to push it and impress the new staff. But he has a great maturity level and aptitude. He has a good head on his shoulders. He seeks direction.

One of the things that DARPA helps provide is funding to get a technology to a certain maturity level, ... That makes DARPA more important in the rolling out of technologies from the defense industry because the market now demands that maturity.

Obviously he's a load. There's no question about that. He's way beyond his years in maturity. You watch him and you watch his body language and his facial expressions and you can tell the confidence that he plays with. But the thing that amazes me is his team has so much confidence in him.

I don't have a creepy uncle, but I certainly have many, many uncles. My mom has twelve brothers and sisters, and my dad has two sisters and three brothers. Their maturity level is still hovering around fifteen when they all get together, but they're not necessarily creepy.

Last year, we started seven freshmen, and this year we will probably only start two. That makes it a lot easier for us to compete because we will have maturity and experience.

Last year, playing (games) like this, it was what I called a feeding frenzy. Everybody pushed up, there was no shape and we just tried to bang away. This time, we were still working on stuff, pulling the ball back around and trying to create space. I think that shows some maturity and that's what we tried to do.

We're committed to enhancing the tool in the future and increasing its maturity over time.

Since I've been at George Washington the last five years, he's made the biggest progress in terms of maturity and development. He's a special guy. He came up big.

Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it's finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even

Maturity is the fine line between life and experience.

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Maturity-wise, she did a great job to lead the team.

She bounced back. In the past she would've just wilted. I'm really happy with the way she responded. That's maturity.

She brings leadership, maturity and professionalism to our franchise. It is very important for the development of our young team to have a player with these qualities.

She has shown the maturity to handle everything that has been thrown at her. She has been a vital part of the team. There has been a lot put on her plate and she has handled it. You can't help but feel good about a kid like that.

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Short stories are often strong meat. Reading them, even listening to them, can be challenging, by which I do not mean hard work, simply that a certain amount of nerve and maturity is required.

She's like a coach on the court ? she gets the girls together, makes them focus, gives direction out. That maturity level about her is fabulous, she's very unselfish ? too unselfish at times. And in pressure situations, she wants the ball in her hands. She doesn't put up (big) points, but she puts up everything else.

She was kind of thin as a 3-year-old but maturity has been great for her. She's so much stronger now and she's getting better. The break we gave her after the Breeders' Cup has helped her and she's coming up to the race in really good shape.

She's got big-game experience. She's a little bit older and has maturity on and off the ice.

She's shown her maturity early on. She played great against Colleyville Heritage and Arlington Martin and we won the Plano Tournament of Champions. Then there's the way she has played to start district play.