Quotes about Maturity

Idleness among children, as among men, is the root of all evil, and leads to no other evil more certain than ill temper.

A world where everything was easy would be a nursery for babies, but not at all a fit place for men.

The man who is deeply discontented with himself is probably growing fast into the full likeness of Christ.

I told my students that the greatest liability they will have is old saints who never matured

My son accompanied me throughout the campaign and siege, and caused no anxiety either to me or to his mother, who was at home. He looked out for himself and was in every battle of the campaign. His age, then not quite thirteen, enabled him to take in all he saw, and to retain a recollection of it that would not be possible in more mature years.

The soul of a young girl should not be left in the dark; later on, mirages that are too abrupt and too lively are formed there, as in a dark chamber.

Let us be poised, wise and our own today.

It's impossible to remain angry or blame other people for problems in your life when you are saying , I am responsible.

People should judge me for what I've done in 25 years. I'm not a rookie in F1.

The mature and well-balanced man, standing firmly with both feet on the earth, who has never been lamed and broken an half-blinded by the scandal of life, is as such the existentially godless man.

With Christ in us and the Holy Spirit transforming us, we really have no excuse for continuing immaturity.

The wife smiled and added, "Never forget that your twenty- or thirty- or even forty-something husband is still a little boy inside who used to say to his mom, 'Watch me! Watch me!' They never completely get over that.