Quotes about Maturity
As you grow and mature, you will want and will earn more freedom to live your lives your way and to make your own choices. This you should do.
— Joseph Wirthlin
No one wants pain. Not even long-time, mature Christians who want to grow. We will always find ways to avoid pain. Pain itself is a bad thing.
— John Ortberg
Affliction is a treasure, and scarce any man hath enough of it. No man hath affliction enough that is not matured and ripened by it and made fit for God.
— John Donne
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When a man is old enough to do wrong he should be old enough to do right also.
— Oscar Wilde
The great majority of men grow up and grow old in seeming and following.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ah! Sir, a boy's being flogged is not so severe as a man's having the hiss of the world against him.
— Samuel Johnson
As a man passes into middle life, or beyond it, autumn, it has been said, whispers more to his soul than any other season of the natural year. It is not difficult to see why this should be.
— Henry Parry Liddon
A man is sane morally at thirty, rich mentally at forty, wise spiritually at fifty-or never!
— William Osler
You are a man still young, so to say, in your first youth and so put intellect above everything.
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
King Solomon, who supposedly was the wisest of all men, described his youth as his winter and his advanced years as his summer. We can be older than we used to be yet feel much younger than we are.
— Marianne Williamson
When a man stands on the verge of seventy-two you know perfectly well that he never reached that place without knowing what this life is - heartbreaking bereavement.
— Mark Twain