Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

Andre Gide

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

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?

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

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Bob Dylan

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

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.

Jane Austen

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

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

Compton MacKenzie

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

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.

This is the maturity she has and that's why she's going to be playing in college. She realizes for the team to be successful, she had to do something she might not want to do. That's a team player and that's why teams with her on them will be successful.

Kurt Vonnegut

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

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

Flannery O'Connor

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Erich Maria Remarque

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Erica Jong

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Indira Gandhi

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Neil Young

You can't be 20 on Sugar Mountain.

Neal A. Maxwell

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

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

Nicos Anastasiades

I would like to thank the Cypriot people for their maturity and collectedness shown in their interactions with the Cypriot Banks.

Nicole Scherzinger

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Kenneth Rexroth

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Myles Munroe

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

J. William Fulbright

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

Rafael Nadal

It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

Marie Dressler

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Mark Zandi

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.