Maturity Quotes

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

To me, growing into spiritual maturity is becoming less self-conscious and more God-conscious.

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.

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

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.

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.

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering.

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.

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

I do not think that having children - I have three teenagers - keeps you young. The reverse. It thrusts you into a full-frontal confrontation with your own all-too-obvious maturity.

I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

I grew up going to school and high school and then shooting a movie for a few months. It's an odd way to grow up and is kind of forced maturity.

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

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

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

Youth condemns; maturity condones.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

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.

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

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