Famous Quotes & Sayings

Marlon Brando

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

Max Lucado

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

Max Lucado

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Louise J. Kaplan

We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

Marilyn vos Savant

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

Maria Montessori

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Joyce Carol Oates

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Paul Watzlawick

Maturity… Is The Ability To Do Something Even Though Your Parents Have Recommended It.

Pope John Paul II

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.

Terence McKenna

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.

Philip Pullman

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Rabindranath Tagore

When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

Leona Lewis

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Lindsey Vonn

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Lindsey Buckingham

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Richard Owen

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

Victoria Principal

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Richard Ford

Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things.

Richard Rohr

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Richard Rohr

Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

Ricky Williams

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Sydney J. Harris

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Suze Orman

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.

Robert Blair

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Thomas Sowell

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Leo Tolstoy

And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

Karl Rahner

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.

Joseph Goebbels

The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

Julian Sands

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.