Maturity Quotes - Page 25

• Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Spiritual, Journey, Youth

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• Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

  Bill Vaughan

  Psychological, Permission, Adolescence

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• Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

  Indira Gandhi

  New Experiences, Vision, Clarity

  Indira Gandhi, Dorothy Norman (1985). “Indira Gandhi, letters to an American friend 1950-1984”, Harcourt

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• Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.

  Abigail Van Buren

  Jobs, Bears, Injustice

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• No one will live all his life in the world into which he was born and no one will die in the world in which he worked in his maturity.

  Margaret Mead

  Change, World, Born

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Tree

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• art is exposure. And until you've developed a degree of maturity to handle that knowledge, you are revealing what other people keep hidden.

  Shelley Winters

  Art, People, Degrees

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• That cruelty which children are permitted to show to birds and other animals will most probably exert itself on their fellow creatures when at years of maturity.

  Samuel Richardson

  Children, Animal, Years

  Samuel Richardson (1980). “A collection of the moral and instructive sentiments: a facsimile reproduction”, Scholars Facsimilies & Reprint

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• Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

  Zig Ziglar

  Moving, Makeup, Important

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• And for him, who lived in a certain circle, and who required some mental activity such as usually develops with maturity, having views was as necessary as having a hat.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Views, Circles, Hats

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• In Christ we see a maturity of love that flowers in self-sacrifice and forgiveness; a maturity of power that never swerves from the ideal of service; a maturity of goodness that overcomes every temptation, and, of course, we see the ultimate victory of life over death itself.

  Vincent Nichols

  Flower, Sacrifice, Self

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• I knew many Marines had done brave deeds that no one saw and for which they got no medals at all. I was having a very hard time carrying those medals and didnt have the insight or maturity to know what to do with my combination of guilt and pride.

  Karl Marlantes

  Pride, Marine, Hard Times

  Karl Marlantes (2011). “What It Is Like To Go To War”, p.115, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Eden Robinson is one of those rare artists who comes to writing with a skill and maturity that has taken the rest of us decades to achieve.

  Thomas King

  Taken, Writing, Artist

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• The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space.

  John Noble Wilford

  Roots, Space, Childhood

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• Sometimes when we read the words of those who have been more than conquerors, we feel almost despondent. I feel that I shall never be like that. But they won through step by step, by little bits of wills, little denials of self, little inward victories, by faithfulness in very little things. They became what they are. No one sees these little hidden steps. They only see the accomplishment, but even so, those small steps were taken. There is no sudden triumph, no spiritual maturity. That is the work of the moment.

  Amy Carmichael

  Spiritual, Taken, Self

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• It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Family, Mother, Children

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• Sweet Love of youth, forgive, if I forget thee,
  While the world's tide is bearing me along;
  Sterner desires and darker hopes beset me,
  Hopes which obscure, but cannot do thee wrong.

  Emily Bronte

  Sweet, Forgiving, Desire

  Emily Bronte, “Remembrance”

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• At thirty years a woman asks her lover to give her back the esteem she has forfeited for his sake; she lives only for him, her thoughts are full of his future, he must have a great career, she bids him make it glorious; she can obey, entreat, command, humble herself, or rise in pride; times without number she brings comfort when a young girl can only make moan.

  Honore de Balzac

  Love, Girl, Women

  "A Woman of Thirty" by Honore de Balzac, translated by Ellen Marriag, (Ch. III), 1842.

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• When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.

  John Steinbeck

  People, Mature, Travels With Charley

  John Steinbeck (1980). “Travels with Charley in Search of America”, p.8, Penguin

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• You'll find that marriage is a good short cut to the truth. No, not quite that. A way of doubling back to the truth. Another thing you'll find is that the years of illusion aren't those of adolescense, as the grown-ups try to tell us; they're the ones immediately after it, say the middle twenties, the false maturity if you like, when you first get thoroughly embroiled in things and lose your head. Your age, by the way, Jim. That's when you first realize that sex is important to other people besides yourself. A discovery like that can't help knocking you off balance for a time.

  Kingsley Amis

  Sex, Cutting, Discovery

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• We belong to that order of mammals, the primates, distinguished by its propensity for repeated single litters, intense parental care, long life-spans, late sexual maturity, and a complex and extensive social existence... Our protracted biological and psychological helplessness, which extends well into the third year of life, intensifies the bond between infant and parents, making possible a sense of generational continuity. In contrast to other primates these bonds are not obliterated after sexual maturity.

  Louise J. Kaplan

  Order, Years, Long

  Louise J. Kaplan (1995). “Adolescence: The Farewell to Childhood”, Touchstone Books

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• Man is more courageous, pugnacious, and energetic than woman, and has a more inventive genius. His brain is absolutely larger, but whether relatively to the larger size of his body, in comparison with that of woman, has not, I believe been fully ascertained. In woman the face is rounder; the jaws and the base of the skull smaller; the outlines of her body rounder, in parts more prominent; and her pelvis is broader than in man; but this latter character may perhaps be considered rather as a primary than a secondary sexual character. She comes to maturity at an earlier age than man.

  Charles Darwin

  Women, Believe, Character

  "The Descent of Man". Book by Charles Darwin, volume II, chapter XIX: "Secondary Sexual Characters of Man", pages 316-317, 1871.

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• Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone.

  John C. Maxwell

  Funny, Motivational, Wisdom

  John C. Maxwell (2010). “Everyone Communicates, Few Connect: What the Most Effective People Do Differently”, p.31, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I'm not ready to own a place yet. I have the money, but I don't have the maturity.

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Ready, Not Ready

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• I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces.

  Cyra McFadden

  Country, Wish, Age

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