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Below, you will find a wide range of quotes and sayings about maturity which are great for those who are growing and coming to new realisations.
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63+ Eye-Opening Quotes About Maturity
1. “Do any men grow up or do they only come of age?” – Stephen King
2. “To the immature, other people are not real.” – Harry and Bonaro Overstreet
3. “The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.” – Peter De Vries
4. “Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.” – M.J. Croan
5. “Never mourn the loss of innocence, because it always brings the much greater gain of wisdom.” – Erica Goros
6. “Scars fade with time. And the ones that never go away, well, they build character, maturity, caution.” – Erin McCarthy
7. “Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.” – Hermann Hesse
8. “A man should be able to hear, and to bear, the worst that could be said of him.” – Saul Bellow
9. “The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.” – John C. Maxwell
10. “Maturity is the moment one regains one’s innocence.” – Marty Rubin
11. “A person’s readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.” – Myles Munroe
12. “To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.” – Michael Bassey Johnson
13. “Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.” – Joshua Loth Liebman
14. “Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.” – Isaac Watts
15. “You are never too old to become younger!” – Mae West
16. “You simply don’t get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you’ve been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.” – Doris Lessing
17. “There’s truths you have to grow into.” – H.G. Wells
18. “Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of ‘not knowing’.” – Mark Z. Danielewski
19. “Childhood and adulthood were not factors of age but states of mind.” – Alex Shakar
20. “Sometimes problems don’t require a solution to solve them; instead they require maturity to outgrow them.” – Steve Maraboli
21. “Maturity involves turning an insult into a feedback.” – Aniekee Tochukwu Ezekiel
22. “Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.” – Nicole Scherzinger
23. “Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.” – Tom Stoppard
24. “Maturity means seeing the differences, but realizing they don’t matter. There’s no technological shortcut.” – Ted Chiang
25. “Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.” – Jim Rohn
26. “Everyone grows but not everyone becomes mature.” – Kemi Sogunle
27. “Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.” – Zig Ziglar
28. “In a desperate attempt to stay young forever we have achieved eternal childishness, rather than eternal youth.” – Daniel Prokop
29. “Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.” – Alicia Keys
30. “To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.” – William Arthur Ward
31. “I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.” – Albert Einstein
32. “We are never more fully alive, more completely ourselves, or more deeply engrossed in anything, than when we are at play.” – Charles Schaefer
33. “In the end, it’s a mental maturity to let your best come out.” – Lindsey Vonn
34. “I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.” – Ursula K. Le Guin
35. “Lately, when I didn’t have room to bitch, I didn’t. Maturity, at last.” – Laurell K. Hamilton
36. “‘Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.” – Martha Graham
37. “Maturity implies otherness… The art of living is the art of living with.” – Julius Gordon
38. “Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.” – Kurt Vonnegut
39. “Sexiness comes with maturity.” – Andie MacDowell
40. “Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.” – Thomas A. Edison
41. “Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don’t see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.” – Marianne Williamson
42. “Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.” – Samuel Ullman
43. “Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.” – Tess Gerritsen
44. “If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness.” – M. Esther Harding
45. “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.” – Ann Landers
46. “I’ve come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.” – Michelle Obama
47. “I never really had a teenage experience. I went from childhood to maturity, and in some ways, it short-circuited me emotionally.” – Robbie Robertson
48. “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 B. Wirthlin
49. “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.” – Ricky Williams
50. “One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.” – David A. Bednar
51. “There was that word again. Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we’d never get them?” – Diana Peterfreund
52. “Content’ is a word that has never sat well with me. Like ‘maturity’. They are two words I’ve never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.” – Elvis Costello
53. “The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.” – Paul Tillich
54. “Grown-ups have developed an unpleasant habit of comforting themselves for their degradation by pretending that children are childish.” – T.H. White
55. “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.” – Calvin Coolidge
56. “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.” – Philip Pullman
57. “True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends’ boyfriends – and he accepts it.” – Larry McMurtry
58. “Learning lessons is a little like reaching maturity. You’re not suddenly more happy, wealthy, or powerful, but you understand the world around you better, and you’re at peace with yourself. Learning life’s lessons is not about making your life perfect, but about seeing life as it was meant to be.” – Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
59. “What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.” – Christopher Reeve
60. “Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses in your life; you realize everything that happens in life is a result of the previous choice you’ve made and start making new choices to change your life.” – Roy T. Bennett