Maturity Quotes and Sayings – Inspire Quotes about Growing Up
Maturity Quotes and Sayings
“Youth condemns; maturity condones.” —Amy Lowell
“Age is no guarantee of maturity.”— Lawana Blackwell
“Maturity is knowing when to be immature.” —Randall Hall
“Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”—John Huston Finley
“Maturity is the moment one regains one’s innocence.”—Marty Rubin
“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”—Jules Feiffer
“Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization.”—K. Rexroth
“Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself.” —Elisabeth Elliot
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”—Tom Stoppard
“I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.”—Peggy Cahn
“Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice.” —Harry Styles
“I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.” —Rob Lowe
“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.” —Publilius Syrus
“Maturity is the ability to discern the ignorant without discussing them.”—Vikrant Parsai
“Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself.” —Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg
“Maturity is to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.”—Fritz Kunkel
“Maturity begins the day you take responsibility for your own feelings.”—Kevin Everett Fitzmaurice
“One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help.” —Dennis Wholey
“Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.” —Hermann Hesse
“Maturity implies otherness… The art of living is the art of living with.”—Julius Gordon
“Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.”—Wes Fessler
“Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.” —Joshua Loth Liebman
“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.” —Joshua Loth Liebman
“Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change.” —Anonymous
“Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing.” —Mark Z. Danielewski
“Maturity comes when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.”—John M. Henry
“Maturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start understanding small things.”—Unknown
“Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.” —Jim Rohn
“Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.” —Thomas A. Edison
“Age’ is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.” —Martha Graham
“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.” —John MacNaughton
“A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.”—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
“Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.”—M.J. Croan
“Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you’d have the time of your life.”—Anonymous
“Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.”—Kurt Vonnegut
“That’s maturity-when you realize that you’ve finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents.”—Elizabeth Peters
“A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one’s feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.”—Gordon Wallport
“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.” —William Arthur Ward
“Maturity begins when you feel you are right about something without feeling the need to prove someone else wrong.” —Sydney J. Harris
“Maturity is when we can treat ourselves in our own way rather than within the automatic ways of our parents in childhood.”—Hugh Missildine
“I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you’re not the center of the universe.” —Katherine Paterson
“The awareness of the ambiguity of one’s highest achievements (as well as one’s deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.” —Paul Johannes Tillich
“Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others.” —Unknown
“Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime.” —Edwin Louis Cole
“If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.” —Mary Beth Danielson
“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
“Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with ‘adult. But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child.” —Gina Marinello
“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
“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
“I would say that the surest measure of a man’s or a woman’s maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.” —Benjamin Spock
Maturity Quotes about Growing Up
“With adulthood comes responsibility.”—Mary Lydon Simonsen
“Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.”—Brian Tracy
“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”—John Finley
“It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.”—Brigitte Bardot
“Maturity is when you stop making excuses and start making changes.”—Roy Bennett
“Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.”—Indira Gandhi
“You are not really grown up until you see and understand your weaknesses.”—Dr T.P.Chia
“You can’t prove you’re not a child by engaging in childish behavior.”—Alan Robert Neal
“Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.”—Rick Warren
“To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.”—Fritz Kunkel
“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.”—Abraham Lincoln
“I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.”—Margaret Mead
“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”—Douglas Engelbart
“Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.”—Dr T.P.Chia
“One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.”—Virgil A. Kraft
“To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.”—Henri Bergson
“That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”—L. M. Montgomery
“Experience life in all possible ways – good- bad, bitter- sweet, dark- light, and summer- winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.”—Osho
“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
“We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice- that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.”—Sydney J. Harris
“Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it’s finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”—Abigail Van Buren