Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pope John Paul II

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.

Quintilian

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive.

Terence McKenna

Psychedelic experiences are beyond the reach of cultural manipulation, and discovering this and exploring it is somehow the frontier of maturity. Culture is a form of enforced infantilism. It's the last nursery, and most people never leave it.

Laura Schlessinger

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity.

Leona Lewis

I'd date someone younger or older age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.

Lindsey Vonn

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Lindsey Buckingham

If you're any good at all, you know you can be better.

Leo Tolstoy

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.

Philip Pullman

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

Karl Rahner

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.

Joseph Goebbels

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

Julian Sands

As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

Joyce Carol Oates

Is there any mystery like who you finally turn out to be.

John Dewey

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

Frank Yerby

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

Livy

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.

Mahatma Gandhi

Be the change you seek.

John C. Maxwell

When your through changing, your through!

Edward Bellamy

Hold the period of youth sacred to education, and the period of maturity, when the physical forces begin to flag, equally sacred to ease and agreeable relaxation.

Hermann Hesse

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.

Helen Mirren

You know, some actors, all of their potential is in their youth, and when that passes, their qualities of as an actor pass. But he - Alan [Rickman] was the opposite, and their are other actors who are like that, who, really, their potential is in maturity

John le Carre

I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Diablo Cody

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

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

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

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.

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.