Famous Quotes & Sayings

Immanuel Kant

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

Elton John

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

Milan Kundera

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

Joseph Addison

When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting.

Kelley Armstrong

Maturity is highly overrated.

John C. Maxwell

When your through changing, your through!

Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Helen Mirren

You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity

Michael Buckley

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

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.

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.

John Dewey

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

Frank Yerby

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

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.

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.

John le Carre

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Leona Lewis

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

Livy

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you seek.

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.

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.

Kenneth Rexroth

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.

Jenna Jameson

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

LeVar Burton

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Learned Hand

Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.