Quotes about Maturity

And there was, in those Ipswich years, for me at least, a raw educational component; though I used to score well in academic tests, I seemed to know very little of how the world worked and was truly grateful for instruction, whether it was how to stroke a backhand, mix a martini, use a wallpaper steamer, or do the Twist. My wife, too, seemed willing to learn. Old as we must have looked to our children, we were still taking lessons, in how to be grown-up.

Getting old could be jolly, if you stayed strong.

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Lincoln himself once said, "The worst things you can do for those you love are the things they could and should do for themselves." He fiercely believed in self-sufficiency, and in the maturity and character that struggles and hardships can bring.

Any fool can have a child. That doesn't make you a father. It's the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

As we mature in Christ, it is actually possible to outgrow fear.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!

Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

We learn not in the school, but in life.

People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands.