Quotes about Maturity
When one is grown up, money is lying about at one's service. It is only when one is young that it is rare. Take no thought for money - that always lies to hand.(Women in Love)
- DH Lawrence
By the time a man is rich enough to sleep late he's too old to enjoy it.
- Anonymous
There is no man that lives who does not need to be drilled, disciplined, and developed into something higher and nobler and better than he is by nature. Life is one prolonged birth.
- Henry Ward Beecher
Remember, the goal is not to raise great kids; it's to raise kids who become great adults.
- Andy Andrews
Cease to be a disobedient child in the school of experience, and begin to learn, with humility and patience, the lessons that are set for your ultimate perfection.
- James Allen
The best fire doesna flare up the soonest.
- George Eliot
But he cannot see a connection between the end of yearning and the end of poetry. Is that what growing up amounts to: growing out of yearning, of passion, of all intensities of the soul?
- JM Coetzee
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
- Pope John Paul II
It is not he who begins well who is perfect. It is he who ends well who is approved in God's sight.
- St. Basil
God wants a child's heart and a grownup's head.
- CS Lewis
It takes a lot of grace and maturity to simply forgive, but a lot of healing takes place when you do.
- Elizabeth George
Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.
- Beth Moore