Best Maturity Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings Page 16

“Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.”

Men Boys Middle Humorous Aging Maturity Middle Aged Birthday Humor

“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.”

People Young Cures Maturity Urges Mature Assured Travel And Tourism Senility Travels With Charley

Book:Travels with Charley in Search of America

Source: Travels with Charley in Search of America

“You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.”

People Ifs Way Trying Years Firsts Important Helping Age Sex Realizing Loses Cutting Middle Balance Illusion Discovery Twenties Maturity Knocking Short Cuts

Author:Kingsley Amis

“My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.”

Important Play Names Grows Walks Levels Growing Up Son My Family Maturity My Son Jersey Representing Wade Family Name

Author:Dwyane Wade

“My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.”

Thinking Past Certain Levels Situation Maturity Rising Maturity Level

Author:Frank Thomas

“It is not a sign of weakness, but a sign of high maturity, to rise to the level of self-criticism.”

Self Levels Weakness Criticism Maturity Self Criticism

Book:Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

Source: Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community?

“What we mean by maturity in people's thinking is not a matter of how smart they are, but it is a matter of the order of consciousness in which they exercise their smartness or their lack of it.”

People Thinking Mean Matter Order Consciousness Exercise Smart Maturity Smartness

Book:In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life

Source: In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life

“Distance makes the heart grow fonder, a little bit, but there's a certain maturity level that just comes with experience and growing up.”

Heart Littles Certain Grows Bits Levels Growing Up Growing Little Bit Distance Maturity Maturity Level

Author:Brendan Fehr

“Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth.”

Long Two Character Growth Situation Elements Obedience Range Maturity

Book:Effective Biblical Counseling

Source: Effective Biblical Counseling

“There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'”

Three Stage Youth Maturity Looking Good Stages Of Life

Author:Dwight D. Eisenhower

“The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.”

Determine Maturity Height

Author:Matthew Ashimolowo

“The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.”

“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.”

World Littles Perfect Powerful Seeing Lessons Maturity Reaching Wealthy Meant To Be Were Meant To Be Learning Lessons Learning Life

Book:Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

Source: Life Lessons: How Our Mortality Can Teach Us About Life And Living

“If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.”

Source: Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal

“Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.”

People May Reason Artist Individual Memories Genius Equal Seasons Maturity Fancy Anticipate Predecessors

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.”

Forever Maturity Expecting

Author:Seth Klarman

“Like to have a catalyst - reduces dependence on the market: Distressed debt inherently has a catalyst - maturity.”

Debt Maturity Dependence Catalyst

Author:Seth Klarman

“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.”

Important Reason Guy Strong Personality Maturity Sense Of Humor Really Awesome Older Guys

Author:Elizabeth Gillies

“The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.”

Past Spiritual Strong Threat Believer Maturity Thoughtful Recalls Faithfulness Spiritual Maturity God's Faithfulness

Author:Max Anders

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

Spiritual Comfortable Maturity Unpredictability Spiritual Maturity

Author:Erwin W. Lutzer

“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.”

Mean Ideas Reason Certain Greater Possibility Practicals Realization Maturity Treatment Life And Time

Book:The religious thought in Islam

Source: The religious thought in Islam

“Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.”

People Lasts Form Culture Maturity Manipulation Discovering Exploring Frontiers Psychedelic Nursery Psychedelic Experience

Author:Terence McKenna

“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.”

Children Philosophy My Own Appreciate Roots Ancient Chinese Maturity Child Rearing Education And Knowledge Ancient History

Author:Tess Gerritsen

“Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.”

Men Years Decided Mark Wide Uncertainty Maturity Not Sure

Book:Everybody Dies

Source: Everybody Dies

“Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.”

Years Two Happens Levels Deals Events Maturity Two Years Traumatic Events Maturity Level

Book:Social Blunders: A Novel

Source: Social Blunders: A Novel

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

People Needs Compassion Maturity Damage

Author:Peter Coyote

“When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.”

Years Children Persons Like You Industry Maturity Etcetera

Author:Jerry Seinfeld

“The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.”

Heaven Towns London Maturity Marvelous Feathers

Author:Nicholas Monsarrat

“In adults, dependability is the fruit of maturity; in a child, it is the seed.”

Children Adults Fruit Seeds Maturity Dependability

Author:Richard M. Eyre

“You expect two-year olds to wear diapers and make a mess with just about everything they touch. We have to allow the young in Christ to be immature, and yes, make messes. Young and immature prophetic people will act like young and immature prophetic people. The belief that some have tried to impose on the prophetic - that if you made one mistake you are a false prophet - inhibits their maturity, or worse, it can profoundly distort their character.”

People Ifs Years Made Two Character Young Belief Christ Mistake Like You Mess Maturity Prophet Two Years Immature Prophetic Diapers Two Year Olds One Mistake False Prophets

Author:Rick Joyner

“We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.”

“Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.”

Ifs Men Long Enough Maturity Long Life Anything Is Possible

Book:Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

Source: Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis

“I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.”

Maturity Femininity Headings Ingenuity

Author:Laurence Harvey

“'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.”

Thinking Wells Two Settling Maturity Sat Decay

Author:Elvis Costello

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

Growth Birth Creatures Passing Passings Maturity Cycles Decay Again And Again Living Creatures Fertility

Author:Wendell Berry

“Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.”

Thinking Ideas Mother Maturity Good Ideas

Author:Paul Watzlawick

“I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.”

Thinking Acceptance Appreciation Maturity Flaws

Author:Chad Urmston

“And that is also what the movie's about, going beyond success, what is success 'cause I think success is misperceived as just a cake and it isn't. There is many things inside that success. There's a maturity and a heartbreak and sadness and broken glass.”

Thinking Causes Sadness Broken Glasses Maturity Cake Broken Glass

Author:David O. Russell

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

Littles Law Given Women Nature Maturity

Author:Samuel Johnson

“To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.”

World Reality Running Realizing Secret Our Lives Politician Cat Mark Complexes Fats Maturity Conspiracy

Author:George Meyer

“When you realize that the real breakthroughs come from levels of higher consciousness, then you also realize that the achievement of maturity and wisdom is the most powerful generator of new beginnings possible.”

Real Realizing Levels Powerful Consciousness Higher Achievement Maturity Most Powerful New Beginnings Breakthrough Higher Consciousness Generator

Author:Marianne Williamson

“The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.”

World Ends Able Turns Can Do Accepting Consequence Denial Triumph Maturity Saying No Great American

Author:George Saunders

“My biggest achievement - besides being drafted into the NBA - was becoming a father. Being a father has made me experience things that have contributed to my maturity and personal growth.”

Made Father Growth Becoming Achievement Personal Growth Maturity Nba Being A Father Becoming A Father

Author:Dwyane Wade

“The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.”

Understanding Our Lives Depth Maturity

Author:David F. Swensen

“Conscious parenting is a new paradign shift in the way we look at our roles as parents. It's turning the spot light away from fixing the child and managing the child, obsession with all things that have to do with the child and the child centric approach and really focusing on the evolution of the parent. It about fully understanding that unless the parent has raised themselves to a certain level of emotional integration and maturity, they will really not be able to do true service to the child's spirit.”

Way Looks Children Light Able Spirit Certain Parent Understanding Levels Roles Emotional Evolution Approach Conscious All Things Raised Obsession Spots Maturity Integration Fixing

Author:Shefali Tsabary

“Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world.”

People World Littles States Care Nations Community Capacity Increase Maturity Our Family Shrinking Capacity To Love

Author:William C. Menninger

“Once a man is on hand, a woman tends to stop believing in her own beliefs”

Men Believe Hands Belief Maturity

Author:Colette Dowling

“For people of different faiths to coexist, it's going to take maturity, wisdom, and patience. All of which come, eventually, with tolerance. And it's a process of time.”

People Different Process Tolerance Maturity Coexist Different Faiths

Author:Zbigniew Brzezinski

“People are anxious to save up financial means for old age; they should also be anxious to prepare a spiritual means for old age.... Wisdom, maturity, tranquility do not come all of a sudden when we retire.”

People Should Mean Age Spiritual Financial Old Age Maturity Anxious Retiring Tranquility Age Wisdom

Book:The Wisdom of Heschel

Source: The Wisdom of Heschel

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

Use Enlightenment Intelligence Maturity Guidance Immature Immaturity Incapacity Divine Guidance Categorical Imperative Being Immature Mature And Immature

Author:Immanuel Kant

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