Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.

David Hilbert

Every kind of science, if it has only reached a certain degree of maturity, automatically becomes a part of mathematics.

Diablo Cody

Juno MacGuff: I was out handling things way beyond my maturity level.

Charlie Chaplin

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today I call it 'maturity'.

Beth Moore

Anyone with the maturity to surrender entirely to God is mature enough for God to use.

Bill Vaughan

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

Bruno Schulz

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

Bill Johnson

Gifts are free, but maturity is expensive.

This is the maturity she has and that's why she's going to be playing in college. She realizes for the team to be successful, she had to do something she might not want to do. That's a team player and that's why teams with her on them will be successful.

I see the maturity of Michelle Snow, getting better and better each day.

Burt Ward

You know, it's a different world now, but to skip ahead and really answer your question, only in the last five years did I find what I call holy maturity, finding the balance, finding the right person in my life so that I could live a normal life.

Charles R. Swindoll

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

Jane Austen

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.

Janet Yellen

We need to increase the transparency of shadow banking markets so that authorities can monitor for signs of excessive leverage and unstable maturity transformation outside regulated banks.

Baltasar Gracian

Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief.

Bob Dylan

I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages

Dennis Prager

When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

Bruce Lee

There is no such thing as maturity. There is instead an ever-evolving process of maturing. Because when there is a maturity, there is a conclusion and a cessation. That’s the end. That’s when the coffin is closed. You might be deteriorating physically in the long process of aging, but your personal process of daily discovery is ongoing. You continue to learn more and more about yourself every day.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

Why does any kind of cynicism appeal to people? Because it seems like a mark of maturity, of sophistication, like you’ve seen everything and know better. Or because putting something down feels like pushing yourself up.

Edsger Dijkstra

… what society overwhelmingly asks for is snake oil. Of course, the snake oil has the most impressive names — otherwise you would be selling nothing — like “Structured Analysis and Design”, “Software Engineering”, “Maturity Models”, “Management Information Systems”, “Integrated Project Support Environments” “Object Orientation” and “Business Process Re-engineering”.

Aristotle

The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

Dave Ramsey

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Dave Ramsey

One definition of maturity is learning to delay pleasure.

Amy Lowell

Youth condemns; maturity condones

Ann Landers

The adult who is constantly changing friends and changing mates is immature. He/she cannot stick it out because he/she has not grown up.

Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished.

Ann Landers

One of the characteristics of the young is "I want it now."

Ann Landers

Grown-up people can wait.

Ann Landers

Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser.

Ann Landers

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 is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul.

Abraham Maslow

We can consider the process of healthy growth to be a never ending series of free choice situations, confronting each individual at every point throughout his life, in which he must choose between the delights of safety and growth, dependence and independence, regression and progression, immaturity and maturity.

Drew Barrymore

I was born 10 years old.