Famous Quotes & Sayings

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.

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

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 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.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

Duff Goldman

I feel like I'm 18, with the maturity level of like a 14-year-old. I'm still the same goofball; I'm still in college, as far as I'm concerned.

Desmond Tutu

Our maturity will be judged by how well we are able to agree to disagree and yet continue to love one another, to care for one another, and cherish one another and seek the greater good of the other.

Ambrose Bierce

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

Alicia Keys

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Alfred de Vigny

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

Andre Gide

How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch.

We need them. We'll find out what kind of maturity they have and who can go out and make plays.

Robert Blair

Throughout the whole vegetable, sensible, and rational world, whatever makes progress towards maturity, as soon as it has passed that point, begins to verge towards decay.

Thomas Sowell

Eternal vigilance is only part of the price of freedom. The maturity to live with imperfections is another crucial part of the price of freedom.

Sydney J. Harris

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong.

Suze Orman

I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

S. J. Perelman

Tomatoes and squash never fail to reach maturity. You can spray them with acid, beat them with sticks and burn them; they love it.

Victoria Principal

When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

Soren Kierkegaard

Maturity consists in the discovery that there comes a critical moment where everything is reversed, after which the point becomes to understand more and more that there is something which cannot be understood.

Rollo May

Understanding and love require a wisdom that comes only with age.

Rumi

No mirror ever became iron again; No bread ever became wheat; No ripened grape ever became sour fruit. Mature yourself and be secure from a change for the worse. Become the light.

Tom Lehrer

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

Sigmund Freud

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification.

Ricky Williams

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

John Steinbeck

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.

Marie Dressler

By the time we hit fifty, we have learned our hardest lessons. We have found out that only a few things are really important. We have learned to take life seriously, but never ourselves.

Mark Zandi

Indeed, the FHA was born out of the Great Depression, which was also caused in significant part by a foreclosure crisis. Mortgages in the early 1930s were mostly three- to five-year 'bullet' loans, which did not amortize and were due in full at maturity.

Max Lucado

My co-pastor is Randy Frazee. Randy is the brightest bulb in this box. He really has a feeling for what a church needs in terms of maturity, so I listen to him.

Max Lucado

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.