Maturity Quotes - Page 7

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself.

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity.

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

Inconsistencies in men are generally testimony to their immaturity.

Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

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

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

Don't you understand that we need to be childish in order to understand? Only a child sees things with perfect clarity, because it hasn't developed all those filters which prevent us from seeing things that we don't expect to see.

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.

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

You mellow too much you ripen and rot.

The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.

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.

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

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

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.