Maturity Quotes

• Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!

  Edwin Louis Cole

  Responsibility, Acceptance, Age

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  Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.

  Samuel Ullman

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Time

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• Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

  Nicky Gumbel

  People, Age, Grades

  Twitter post from May 06, 2016

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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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• Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

  Rumi

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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• Maturity comes with experience, not age.

  Ziad K. Abdelnour

  Age

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• A sign of wisdom and maturity is when you come to terms with the realization that your decisions cause your rewards and consequences. You are responsible for your life, and your ultimate success depends on the choices you make.

  Denis Waitley

  Inspirational, Responsibility, Hard Times

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• Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.

  Joshua L. Liebman

  Life, Motivational, Positive

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• 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.

  Rajneesh

  Responsibility, Trying, Cost

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• The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Yield, Perspective, Serenity

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• maturity ... is letting things happen.

  Carolyn Heilbrun

  Acceptance, Letting Things Happen, Happens

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• Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

  Harry Styles

  Numbers, Choices, Age

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• Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

  Desmond Tutu

  Care, Agree To Disagree, Able

  Desmond Tutu (2011). “God Has A Dream: A Vision of Hope for Our Times”, p.22, Random House

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• One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Becoming, Mark, Ability

  Charles R. Swindoll (2006). “The Grace Awakening: Believing in Grace Is One Thing. Living it Is Another.”, p.159, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions.

  Susan Maushart

  Decision, Competence

  Susan Maushart (2011). “The Winter of Our Disconnect: How Three Totally Wired Teenagers (and a Mother Who Slept with Her iPhone)Pulled the Plug on Their Technology and Lived to Tell the Tale”, p.23, Penguin

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  Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Apology, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Oct 24, 2016

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• Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

  Jenna Jameson

  Independence, Three, Stage

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  I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Lonely, Clever

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.7, Open Road Media

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• To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

  William Arthur Ward

  Self Esteem, Humility, Pride

  William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”

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  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 C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Growing Up

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Maxwell 2in1 (Developing the Leader w/in You/Developing Leaders Around You)”, p.103, Harper Collins

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• Filthy language is used by people who don't have the maturity or intelligence to express themselves with better words.

  Nouman Ali Khan

  People, Language, Used

  FaceBook post by Nouman Ali Khan from Aug 18, 2013

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• Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

  Leonard Ravenhill

  Age, Christianity, Obedience

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  Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world.

  Richard Rohr

  Imperfect World, A Perfect World, Ability

  Richard Rohr (1996). “Job and the Mystery of Suffering: Spiritual Reflections”, p.177, Gracewing Publishing

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• The true mark of maturity is when someone hurts you and you try and understand their situation instead of hurting them back.

  Ryron Gracie

  Art, Hurt, Trying

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• Maturity is when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Believe, Heart, Soul

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