Maturity Quotes - Page 9

• You are never too old to become younger!

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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• We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Teenager, Brain, Desire

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Bless you prison, bless you for being in my life. For there, lying upon the rotting prison straw, I came to realize that the object of life is not prosperity as we are made to believe, but the maturity of the human soul.

  Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

  Lying, Believe, Soul

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• No one knows what he can do till he tries.

  Publilius Syrus

  Long, Excellence, Trying

  "The Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus, a Roman Slave". Book by Darius Lyman. Maxim 786, 1856.

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• Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

  Ann Landers

  Growing, Wiser, Products

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• People look with sympathetic eyes only at the blossom and the fruit, and disregard the long period of transition during which the one is ripening into the other.

  Berthold Auerbach

  Eye, Long, People

  Berthold Auerbach (18??). “Little Barefoot: Or, Strive and Trust, a Tale of Village Life”

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• You do not chop off a section of your imaginative substance and make a book specifically for children, for, if you are honest, you have no idea where childhood ends and maturity begins. It is all endless and all one.

  P. L. Travers

  Children, Book, Ideas

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A woman of mystery is one who also has a certain maturity and whose actions speak louder than words. Any woman can be one, if she keeps those two points in mind. She should grow up-and shut up.

  Alfred Hitchcock

  Growing Up, Two, Actions Speak Louder Than Words

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• Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

  J. William Fulbright

  Finals, Accommodations, Aspiration

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• To me, a mark of maturity is realizing that nobody runs the world. Fat cat politicians and secret conspiracies don't control our lives. In reality, the world is much more complex than that.

  George Meyer

  Running, Cat, Reality

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

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• Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

  Laura Schlessinger

  Feelings, Important, Venting

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• Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Motivational, Children

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• Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Believe, Men, Slowness

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• The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Eight, Perfect

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2015). “Studies in Pessimism: Top of Schopenhauer”, p.47, 谷月社

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• If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

  Lindsey Buckingham

  Knows, Ifs

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• So many of us have abdicated our passions for obligations, as if passion is a luxury for the young, and we must all grow up one day. We, even if reluctantly, fall into place to live a life of conformity that we describe as ‘maturity.’ We’ve made acting like an adult synonymous with living apathetic lives.

  Erwin McManus

  Growing Up, Fall, Passion

  Erwin Raphael McManus (2006). “Uprising: A Revolution of the Soul”, p.7, Thomas Nelson

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• The true depth of understanding and maturity as a practitioner is how we apply what we've learned to our lives.

  David F. Swensen

  Understanding, Depth, Our Lives

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• Listen to your being. It is continuously giving you hints; it is a still, small voice. It does not shout at you, that is true. And if you are a little silent you will start feeling your way. Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. Risking all to be oneself, that's what maturity is all about.

  Rajneesh

  Spiritual, Responsibility, Voice

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• Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

  Lawrence Block

  Men, Years, Mark

  Lawrence Block (2010). “Everybody Dies”, p.34, Hachette UK

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• When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

  Michael Buckley

  Michael Buckley, Peter Ferguson (2008). “Once Upon a Crime”, Amulet

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• Infantile love follows the principle: "I love because I am loved." Mature love follows the principle: "I am loved because I love." Immature love says: "I love you because I need you." Mature love says: "I need you because I love you.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Immature, Principles

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.46, Open Road Media

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

  Alain de Botton

  Crazy, Knowing, Trying

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• A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.

  Thomas Szasz

  Family, Children, Age

  The Second Sin (1973) "Childhood"

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• children are an embarrassment to a business civilization. A business society needs children for the same reason that a nomadic or a pastoral society needs them - to perpetuate itself. Unfortunately, however, children are of no use to a business society until they have almost reached physical maturity.

  Margaret Halsey

  Children, Business, Civilization

  Margaret Halsey (1952). “The Folks at Home”

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• Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

  Claire Danes

  Nice, Stride, Get Over

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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