Motivational Quotes

Maturity

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

- Allen, Woody

Best Quotes about Maturity

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.

Hall, Randall

Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

Shakespeare, William

There's no point in being grown up if you can't be childish sometimes.

Doctor Who

By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Ah, but I was so much older then, I'm younger than that now.

Dylan, Bob

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.

Landers, Ann

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability... To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Madeleine L'Engle

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Eve Babitz

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

Rohn, Jim

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Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.

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The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one.

Stekel, Wilhelm

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Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

Edison, Thomas A.

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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.

Hammarskjold, Dag

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Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

Finley, John Huston

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By the age of twenty, any young man should know whether or not he is to be a specialist and just where his tastes lie. By postponing the question we have set on immaturity a premium which controls most American personality to its deathbed.

Hillyer, Robert S.

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I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

Cahn, Peggy

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Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Jules Feiffer

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Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. That he has to leave the nest, the security, and go out to do battle. He has to lose everything that is lovely and fight for a new loveliness of his own making, and it's a tragedy. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it.

Helen Hayes

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One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Stein, Gertrude

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To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.

Fritz Kunkel

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Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.

Schlaggenberg, Kajetan Von

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When the apple is ripe it will fall.

Proverb, Irish

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It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Bardot, Brigitte

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Adulthood isn't an award they'll give you for being a good child. You can waste... years, trying to get someone to give that respect to you, as though it were a sort of promotion or raise in pay. If only you do enough, if only you are good enough. No. You have to just... take it. Give it to yourself, I suppose. Say, I'm sorry you feel like that and walk away. But that's hard.

Lois McMaster Bujold

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My Father taught me how to be a man û and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesnÆt take, he gives; he doesnÆt use force, he uses logic; doesnÆt play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by whatÆs in his heart, not his pants.

Kevin Smith

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Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she would come in and sink my boats.

Allen, Woody

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True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it.

Mcmurtry, Larry

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Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Allen, Hervey

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Where id was, there shall ego be.