Maturity Quotes - Page 12

• A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Patient, Individual, Hallmark

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• I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity that I'd always thought I was

  Gerard Jones

  Class, Sound, Mature

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• Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a plant.

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola

  Men, Fruit, Bears

  Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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• The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher suggests, is our capacity to feel less and less satisfied with our answers to better problems.

  Gordon Allport

  Commitment, Science, Intellectual

  Gordon W. Allport (1964). “Becoming: Basic Considerations for a Psychology of Personality”

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• While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain.

  Wes Fesler

  Children, Rain, Play

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• If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who are getting in now, if millennials and teenagers can come to maturity in a world where we hold free and fair elections and agree on what fact is - Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to have a lot to do with that.

  Stephen Burt

  Teenager, People, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Disobey n:To celebrate with an appropriate ceremony the maturity of a command

  Ambrose Bierce

  Celebrate, Ceremony, Command

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• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

  Larry McMurtry

  Girlfriend, Father, Men

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• The average girl would rather have beauty than brains because she knows the average man can see much better than he can think- Ladies' Home JournalI'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four

  Fred Allen

  Girl, Home, Men

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• When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress

  Joseph Addison

  Class, Long, Dresses

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• Women are in league with each other, a secret conspiracy of hearts and pheromones

  Camille Paglia

  Heart, League, Secret

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.107, Vintage

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• Woman submits to her fate; man makes his

  Emile Gaboriau

  Fate, Destiny, Men

  Emile Gaboriau (2017). “Other People's Money”, p.135, Jovian Press

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• A man is as good as he has to be, and a woman is as bad as she dares

  Elbert Hubbard

  Women, Men, Dare

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

  Moms Mabley

  Men, Long, Dies

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• ...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.

  Greg Rucka

  Growing Up, Mistake, Hero

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• We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God

  Harry S. Truman

  Believe, Men, Presidential

  Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1949

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• Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.

  Wayne Mack

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Wall, Color, Green

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• Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

  Tracy McMillan

  Caring, People, Life Is

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• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  Quintilian

  Genius, Happens, Premature

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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• Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Space, Practice

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• Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Thoughtful, Hair

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• Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Opinion, Sophistication

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.188, Harmony

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• If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

  John Updike

  Cry, Mature, Make Out

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.112, Random House

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• The end of the year! I draw the balance. Inquiry of conscience and request to the Spirit for progress and maturity.

  Joseph Goebbels

  Years, Balance, Progress

  "Michael: a German fate in diary notes". Book by Joseph Goebbels, 1926.

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