Maturity Sayings and Quotes

 Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others. ~unknown

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~Joshua Loth Liebman

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. ~Tom Stoppard

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ~Joshua Loth Liebman

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.  ~Samuel Ullman

Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ~andall Hall

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. ~Jim Rohn

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. ~John MacNaughton

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.    ~John Huston Finley

Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.  ~Ann Landers

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. ~Marianne Williamson

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ~William Arthur Ward

I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. ~Peggy Cahn

Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. ~Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg

Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. ~Elisabeth Elliot

I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. ~Katherine Paterson

Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice. ~Harry Styles

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start understanding small things..   ~unknown

A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.  ~Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

Age is no guarantee of maturity.   ~Lawana Blackwell

Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime!  ~Edwin Louis Cole

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. ~Thomas A. Edison

Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing. ~Mark Z. Danielewski

Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it.  ~M.J. Croan

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

Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence.   ~Marty Rubin

Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with 'adult. But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child. ~Gina Marinello

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.  ~Jules Feiffer

Youth condemns; maturity condones. ~Amy Lowell

Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. ~Martha Graham

If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again. ~Mary Beth Danielson

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life.  ~Anonymous

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.   ~Gordon Wallport

Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with.  ~Julius Gordon

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse. ~Benjamin Spock

Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. ~Wes Fessler

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.   ~Kurt Vonnegut

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are. ~Rob Lowe

Maturity is to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. ~Fritz Kunkel

Maturity is when we can treat ourselves in our own way rather than within the automatic ways of our parents in childhood.  ~Hugh Missildine

Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization. ~K. Rexroth

Maturity begins the day you take responsibility for your own feelings.   ~Kevin Everett Fitzmaurice

Maturity comes when keeping a secret gives you more satisfaction than passing it along.   ~John M. Henry

Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change. ~Anonymous

One sign of maturity is knowing when to ask for help. ~Dennis Wholey

That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. ~Elizabeth Peters

Maturity begins when you feel you are right about something without feeling the need to prove someone else wrong. ~Sydney J. Harris

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. ~Publilius Syrus

Maturity is the ability to discern the ignorant without discussing them. ~Vikrant Parsai

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity. ~Paul Johannes Tillich