Maturity Quotes - Page 18

• One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Heart, Commitment, Prove

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• I was born 10 years old.

  Drew Barrymore

  Years, Born

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• It's not until recently that I could even imagine myself as an adult. But these kids today, they look at me like I'm Neil Young. Nirvana is the band their parents listen to.

  Dave Grohl

  Kids, Parent, Adults

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• “How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

  May Sarton

  Growing Up, Thinking, Doe

  "Journal of a Solitude".

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• ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Cfs, Littles

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• If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• Fine #‎ wine is a living liquid ... Its life comprises youth, maturity, old age, and death.

  Julia Child

  Wine, Age, Liquid

  Julia Child, Louisette Bertholle, Simone Beck (2011). “Mastering the Art of French Cooking”, p.91, Knopf

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• A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.

  Albert Mohler

  Biblical, Men, Church

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• Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity.

  J. I. Packer

  Creativity, Resilience, Compounds

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• One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.

  David A. Bednar

  Spiritual, Inexperience, Weakness

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• Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension.

  Rick Warren

  Real, Hands, Complacency

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• Most very successful people can remember that their success was discovered and built out of adversity of some kind. It's not the problems that beset us-problems are surprisingly pretty much the same for millions of others-it's how we react to problems that determines not only our degree of growth and maturity but our future success-and, perhaps, much of our health.

  Earl Nightingale

  Adversity, Successful, People

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• Up to one's last breath, one may retain the simple joys of childhood, the poetic ecstasies of the young person, the enthusiasms of maturity. Right to the end, one may intoxicate one's spirit with flowers, with beauty and with smiles.

  Eliphas Levi

  Flower, Simple, Joy

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• Live in this world, because this world gives a ripening, maturity, integrity. The challenges of this world give you a centering, an awareness. And that awareness becomes the ladder. Then you can move from Zorba to Buddha.

  Rajneesh

  Integrity, Moving, Giving

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• On a positive note, we must reaffirm the right of children to grow up in a family with a father and a mother capable of creating a suitable environment for the child’s development and emotional maturity.

  Pope Francis

  Mother, Children, Growing Up

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• I went from adolescence to senility, trying to bypass maturity.

  Tom Lehrer

  Trying, Bypass, Adolescence

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

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• Men take care of your responsibilities with maturity.

  Delano Johnson

  Responsibility, Men, Care

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• Greece will not manage to get back on its feet without restructuring its debt. There is no way around it. The country's creditors will have to reduce a portion of its debts by extending maturity dates, lowering interest rates or giving them what's called a 'haircut' in financial jargon.

  Peer Steinbruck

  Country, Feet, Giving

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• If you practice yoga every day with perseverance, you will be able to face the turmoil of life with steadiness and maturity.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Perseverance, Yoga, Practice

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• Mature people never make difference of opinion a means of conflict.

  Fethullah Gulen

  Mean, Differences, People

  M. Fethullah Gulen, Ali Unal (2007). “Pearls of Wisdom”, p.88, Tughra Books

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• Gaining maturity in yoga practice involves learning to respect the paths that other people are on and acknowledging their merits, maybe even acknowledging that your own path is lacking in some area where another one excels.

  Geeta Iyengar

  Yoga, Practice, People

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• Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

  Baltasar Gracian

  Mind, Belief

  Baltasar Gracian (2006). “The Art of Worldly Wisdom”, p.62, Shambhala Publications

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• When we rejoice in our fullness, then we can part with our fruits with joy.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Joy, Fruit, Fullness

  Rabindranath Tagore (1994). “失群的鳥”

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• Those of us who have come to years of discretion and more, must often take to retrospect, and seek to appraise the outcome of our lives.

  Learned Hand

  Years, Outcomes, Retrospect

  Learned Hand (1959). “The Spirit of Liberty: Papers and Addresses”

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• When I reached intellectual maturity and began to ask myself whether I was an atheist, a theist, or a pantheist; a materialist, or an idealist; a Christian, or a freethinker; I found that the more I learned and reflected, the less ready was the answer; until, at last, I came to the conclusion that I had neither art nor part with any of these denominations, except the last.

  Thomas Huxley

  Christian, Art, Atheist

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2012). “Collected Essays, Volume V Science and Christian Tradition: Essays”, p.237, tredition

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