Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles R. Swindoll

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...

just the right touch of maturity and vulnerability

Dayton Moore

He's had a tremendous year. He comes to play every day and he doesn't give up a single at-bat. He's really shown a lot of maturity.

Charles R. Swindoll

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

Burt Ward

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Dave Ramsey

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Dave Ramsey

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Dennis Prager

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

Edsger Dijkstra

… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

Aristotle

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Abraham Maslow

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

Compton MacKenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

We showed a lot a poise and maturity in the situation.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

David Berg

From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

We need them. We'll find out what kind of maturity they have and who can go out and make plays.

Drew Barrymore

I was born 10 years old.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Duff Goldman

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Desmond Tutu

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

Alfred de Vigny

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

Andre Gide

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

Ambrose Bierce

Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

Alicia Keys

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Amy Lowell

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Ann Landers

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

Ann Landers

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Ann Landers

Grown-up people can wait.

Ann Landers

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

Ann Landers

Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

Jane Austen

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.