Quotes about Maturity
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
— Karl Rahner
I'm so sick of immaturity, of name-calling, of labels, of gossip, of high school. It doesn't make sense anymore, and I find myself being nice to people that I want to strangle.
— Coco Chanel
When we are foolish, we want to conquer the world. When we are wise, we want to conquer ourselves. That begins when we do what we should no matter how we feel about it.
— John Maxwell
Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Christ wants us to have a child's heart but a grown-up's head.
— CS Lewis
When I'm older I'll understand" said Lucy, " I am older and I don't think I want to understand", replied Edmund
— CS Lewis
Real improvement is of slow growth only.
— Seneca
We can never be like lillies in the garden unless we have spent time as bulbs in the dark, totally ignored.
— Oswald Chambers
Let time that makes you homely make you sage.
— Thomas Parnell
When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
— Gordon Hinckley
We've been given the covenant community because we need each other, and together we'll be more mature, experience more life, and know more joy than we ever would apart from one another.
— Matt Chandler
A kid is a terrible thing to be, in charge of nothing. If you get past that and grown, it's easiest to forget about the misery and pretend you knew all along what you were doing.
— Barbara Kingsolver