Maturity Quotes

"Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard."
-Lois McMaster Bujold

"To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly."
-Henri Bergson

"Age is no guarantee of maturity."
-Lawana Blackwell

"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."
-Abigail Van Buren

"The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one."
-Wilhelm Stekel

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

"Youth condemns; maturity condones."
-Amy Lowell

"What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death."
-Dave Barry

"There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes."
-Doctor Who

"By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up."
-Eve Babitz

"My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn't take, he gives; he doesn't use force, he uses logic; doesn't play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what's in his heart, not his pants."
-Kevin Smith

"To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes."
-Fritz Kunkel

"When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable."
-Madeleine L'Engle

"Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension."
-Joshua Loth Liebman

"Maturity is only a short break in adolescence."
-Jules Feiffer

"Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser."
-Ann Landers

"Maturity consists in having rediscovered the seriousness one had as a child at play."
-Friedrich Nietzsche

"Maturity is the ability to do a job whether or not you are supervised, to carry money without spending it and to bear an injustice without wanting to get even."
-Ann Landers

"It's childish what they're doing. It shows the level of their maturity."
-Stan Rosenfield

"We were very good last year, but we went out and got what was on our wish list. The maturity level on our defense is huge."
-Brent Johnson

"However, we see the trend of R&D moving gradually to the mainland over these few years, depending on the maturity of the engineers there."
-Albert Chen

"I?m not surprised but impressed with the level of emotional maturity out of these kids. They have all grown since last year. They?re more conscious of course management and more patient golfers."
-Ron Kanaskie

"We had four seniors who had been through the rigors of Ivy League play. Their maturity level and experience were helpful."
-Terry Dunn

"The young teams that get down a couple of goals, they try to force things to make things happen. Where maturity knows you're going to get it back in the next two minutes."
-Manny Legace

"The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity."
-Paul Tillich

"We're hoping for maturity and discipline from Katie, not only to her game but to the team."
-Cassie Belmodis

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

"Blaise is adjusting to being the biggest guy around. When he came in as a freshman, he was wrestling 18-year-old seniors and there is a huge maturity factor in the body. This year the strength issue isn't bothering him so much."
-Rob Puterio