Maturity Quotes

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

This goal can and must be attained in this life. But even if this does not happen, remember that he who has found the way once, always returns to this world with an internal maturity that enables him to continue his work.

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.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

Only through the conscious action of the working masses in city and country can it be brought to life, only through the people's highest intellectual maturity and inexhaustible idealism can it be brought safely through all storms and find its way to port.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

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.

I think that shows a level of maturity and understanding that I think bodes well for getting to the bottom of this. But it is really up to you and your staff, on behalf of the American people, to take on that challenge.

When Louis XIV assumed the reins of government France suddenly and wonderfully came to her maturity; it was as if the whole nation had burst into splendid flower.

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

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

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

I navigate through the world with the excitement and determination of a child. That's why I'm an artist. I'd die without an outlet for expression. Unfortunately, more often than not, that childlike energy is the maturity level I bring to many circumstances.

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I think some people in their 20s really get it, that acting is about creativity and the work. They get their maturity from their work.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.

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.

I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.

Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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

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.

I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.

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.

With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.