Quotes
Quotes about Maturity
However gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Children would be born, brought up, educated, and would grow to maturity and death
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
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.
The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.
Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
At sixteen I was stupid, confused and indecisive. At twenty-five I was wise, self-confident, prepossessing and assertive. At forty-five I am stupid, confused, insecure and indecisive. Who would have supposed that maturity is only a short break in adolescence?
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
It might sound a paradoxical thing to say --for surely never has a generation of children occupied more sheer hours of parental time --but the truth is that we neglected you. We allowed you a charade of trivial freedoms in order to avoid making those impositions on you that are in the end both the training ground and proving ground for true independence. We pronounced you strong when you were still weak in order to avoid the struggles with you that would have fed your true strength. We proclaimed you sound when you were foolish in order to avoid taking part in the long, slow, slogging effort that is the only route to genuine maturity of mind and feeling. Thus, it was no small anomaly of your growing up that while you were the most indulged generation, you were also in many ways the most abandoned to your own meager devices by those into whose safe-keeping you had been given.
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Everyone has the brainpower to follow the stock market. If you made it through fifth-grade math, you can do it. - "Modern Maturity Magazine, Jan/Feb 1995".
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.
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.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
