Famous Quotes & Sayings

Matthieu Ricard

Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.

Marilyn vos Savant

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.

Maria Montessori

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

John Updike

If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

Rafael Nadal

It is no longer enough to play very well. You need to be able to give an answer at all times and everywhere. You cannot hide. This has something to do with maturity, and that is something you only acquire over the years.

Michael Buckley

When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity?

Dayton Moore

He's had a tremendous year. He comes to play every day and he doesn't give up a single at-bat. He's really shown a lot of maturity.

Jennifer Lawrence

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

Fran Lebowitz

Smoking is, as far as I'm concerned, the entire point of being an adult.

Flannery O'Connor

It is a sign of maturity... to find explanations in charity.

George Saunders

The great American denial riff is that you can do whatever you like and you always triumph at the end. The world is saying no, you can do what you like, but there are consequences. And maturity is to be able to turn to the consequences and accept them.

George Bernard Shaw

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

Erich Maria Remarque

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.

Erica Jong

You must have a certain amount of maturity to be a poet. Seldom do sixteen-year-olds know themselves well enough.

Indira Gandhi

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

Charles R. Swindoll

For there to be true maturity, people must be given room to grow, which includes room to fail...

Henry David Thoreau

Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows.

Harriet Beecher Stowe

It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is a celestial wisdom in the ingenuous propensity to trust, which belongs to honest and noble natures.

Gertrude Stein

One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure.

Jenna Jameson

Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence

Harry Styles

Age is just a number, maturity is a choice.

Immanuel Kant

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

Elton John

I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

Ian Fleming

A woman should be an illusion

J. William Fulbright

Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely.

David Berg

From the accounts of those who have had glimpses of Heaven in visions and revelations, it seems that we do mature somewhat in Heaven. Those who arrive in their youth grow to maturity, while older people appear more middle-aged, in the prime of life.

Compton MacKenzie

Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

We showed a lot a poise and maturity in the situation.

Kurt Vonnegut

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.