Quotes about Maturity

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

God's ultimate goal for your life on earth is not comfort, but character development. He wants you to grow up spiritually and become like Christ.

The greatest potential for growth and self-realisation exists in the second half of life.

I've changed a lot but I'm still Smitty. Hopefully I'm more mature and I'm a little wiser, and I plan on by the grace of God finishing well, and I'm more passionate than I ever have been in my life.