Mature Person Quotes

• Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so."

  Ann Landers

  Humility, Maturity, Needs

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• No one is all-knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Knowing, Needs

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1954). “It seems to me”

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  Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Love, Life, Positive

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.340, Penguin

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• A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Life, Motivational, Humility

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1960). “You Learn by Living”, p.63, Westminster John Knox Press

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• Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

  Brian Tracy

  Relationship, Money, Maturity

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies; Remembering this, he keeps his attitude unstructured at all times and thus is always free to pursue the Integral Way. He studies the teachings of the masters. He dissolves all concepts of duality. He pours himself out in service to others.

  Laozi

  Maturity, Service To Others, Persons

  "Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu".

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• Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.

  Laozi

  Love, Inspirational, Life

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• The mature person meets the demands of life, while the immature person demands that life meet her demands.

  Henry Cloud

  Immature, Demand, Persons

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• The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.

  Douglas Engelbart

  Funny, Life, Motivational

  "Computerworld". Book by Douglas Engelbart, p.42, June 22, 1992.

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• Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not collapse when he has to stand alone. It is not an independence of needs for other persons with whom to have relationship: that would not be desired by the mature.

  Nancy Chodorow

  Maturity, Independence, Desire

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• My dream is to collaborate with a mature person.I feel like my talents were being wasted in art school. I would like to try something else, but not the obvious or usual thing.

  Frances Stark

  Dream, Art, School

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• The person who will make the greatest contribution to a company is the mature person-and you cannot have maturity if you have no life or interest outside the job.

  Peter Drucker

  Leadership, Jobs, Maturity

  Peter Drucker (2013). “People and Performance”, p.270, Routledge

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• When you wonder about the mystery of yourself, look to Christ, who gives you the meaning of life. When you wonder what it means to be a mature person, look to Christ, who is the fulfillness of humanity. And when you wonder about your role in the future of the world look to Christ.

  Pope John Paul II

  Mean, Giving, Catholic

  Pope John Paul II (1980). “Pilgrimage of peace: the collected speeches of John Paul II in Ireland and the United States”, HarperCollins

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• The mature person perceives the fruitlessness of rigid, external methodologies.

  Laozi

  Methodology, Perceive, Persons

  Laozi, Brian Browne Walker (1992). “Hua Hu Ching: Teachings of Lao Tzu”

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• I like to think Im a very mature person.

  Joel Courtney

  Thinking, Mature, Persons

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• Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Missing, Energy

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• Why honey, don't you want to get dressed?" My mother took care never to tell me to do anything. She would only reason with me sweetly, like one intelligent, mature person with another. It's almost three in the afternoon." I'm writing a novel," I said. "I haven't got time to change into this and change into that.

  Sylvia Plath

  Mother, Writing, Intelligent

  Sylvia Plath (2016). “The Bell Jar”, p.62, Hamilton Books

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• Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction. The mature person can face unpleasantness, frustration, discomfort and defeat without collapsing or complaining. He/she knows he cannot have everything his/her own way every time. He/she is able to defer to circumstances, to other people-and to time. He/she knows when to compromise and is not too proud to do so.

  Ann Landers

  Maturity, Frustration, Differences

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• The mature person becomes able to differentiate feelings into as many nuances, strong and passionate experiences, or delicate and sensitive ones, as in the different passages of music in a symphony. Unfortunately, many of us have feelings limited like notes in a bugle call.

  Rollo May

  Strong, Symphony, Feelings

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• A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.

  Rajneesh

  Beautiful, Freedom, Integrity

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• Immature people falling in love destroy each other's freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, People

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• It’s in how you carry yourself. I’ve always been a very mature person, and I’ve always known what I wanted. And I go after it no matter what.

  Aaliyah

  Matter, Wanted, Persons

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• As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Regret, Grateful, Thinking

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• In the Peace Corps, the volunteer must be a fully developed, mature person. He must not join to run abroad or escape problems.

  Sargent Shriver

  Running, Peace, Volunteer

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