Mature Quotes - Page 2

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

There are some questions that shouldn't be asked until a person is mature enough to appreciate the answers.

Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

To be honest, I don't think I'm the best role model in the world. I'm pretty immature sometimes.

How am I immature? Intellectually, emotionally, and sexually. Yeah, but in what other ways?

There's a part of you that always remains a child, no matter how mature you get, how sophisticated or weary.

Skateboarding has nothing to do with competition or sport. It has to do with trying to stay as immature as you can for the rest of your life. It's kind of a lame thing to say, but it really is.

Manners easily and rapidly mature into morals.

Some age. Others mature.

I've matured, maybe, but not grown up.

I like things that are immature and offbeat and bizarre. Random jokes. Weird stuff. And stupid. Stupid is the highest compliment a person can pay to me.

It seems that everything is part of the maturing process

A lot of times maturing as an artist is just starting to do the things you like to do.

Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different.

A photographer cannot be inexperienced, or too mature. A photographer ought to be half-ripe.

I'm very disappointed by the mature-democracy countries. I was ousted by a coup d'etat.

Later works are better because it takes a lot of time in architecture to mature. And, it takes a lot of discipline to experience everything that is changing around you.

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

It has been the sad experience of many that much of the best and the most beautiful is lost to those whose mental food consists exclusively of the sensational paper or the cheap novel, or of that frothy mass of waste material which is thrown up like scum upon the molten metal of life--novelettes, serials, and fragments of a type which neither teach the ignorant, nor strengthen the weak, nor develop the immature.

We do not mature through age. We mature in awareness.

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

Immature strategy is the cause of grief.

You become mature when you become the authority of your own life.

Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!