Quotes about Maturity
But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?
- Madeleine L'Engle
Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.
- Wendell Berry
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
- Mark Twain
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
- Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.
- John Maxwell
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
- Jim Rohn
If someone must be hurt, if it ever becomes necessary to bear pains, weather strong winds, or withstand trials or opposition, let it be adults and not children.
- Bishop TD Jakes
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
Can't react every time you're insulted. Free people absorb destructive things and refuse to be destroyed
- Hillary Clinton
The child is the father of the man.
- William Wordsworth
True love is born of experience, not fairy dust.
- Janette Oke
A person doesn't demonstrate independence by rebelling. You do it by shouldering responsibilities, making wise, thoughtful decisions.
- Janette Oke