Maturity Quotes

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert Einstein

Live, Youth, Solitude

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
Samuel Ullman

Spiritual, Feelings, Become

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

Ability, Reap, Complain

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.
Marianne Williamson

Waiting, Yourself, Stop

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.
Ann Landers

Money, Job, Able

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
Joshua L. Liebman

Person, Values, Achieved

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

Often, Youth, Absurd

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward

Yourself, Mistakes, Human

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

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.
Calvin Coolidge

Work, Time, Experience

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.
Pope John Paul II

Matter, Personal, Word

Character... is a habit, the daily choice of right over wrong; it is a moral quality which grows to maturity in peace and is not suddenly developed on the outbreak of war.
Charles Wilson

Peace, War, Character

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.
Karl Rahner

Freedom, True, Often

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

Laughter, Said, Bitter

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

Life, Acting, Expression

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

Age, Acceptance, Glory

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.
Tom Stoppard

High, Growing, Pay

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.
Ricky Williams

Change, Today, Same

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
Tom Stoppard

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.
Christopher Reeve

Power, Wisdom, Hero

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
Joshua L. Liebman

Life, Person, Full

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.
Julius Gordon

Human, Suffering, Ready

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?
Dan Quayle

Faith, Said, Sense

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.
Dag Hammarskjold

Happiness, Play, Child

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.
Liam Neeson

Fighting, Old, Seems

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.
Chris Brown

Women, Girl, Losing

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.
Suze Orman

Individual, Hold, Investment

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.
Muhammad Iqbal

Life, Nature, Time

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

Social, Fine, Measure

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

Young, Air, Lack

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