Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond our families to the community, to the state, to the nation, and to this shrinking little world. — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
A fellow must know where he wants to go, if he is going to get anywhere. It is so easy just to drift along. Some people go through school as if they thought they were doing their families a favor. On a job, they work along in a humdrum way, interested only in their salary check. They don't have a… — William C. Menninger Copy Share
It is just as important, perhaps more important, for the teacher to have the benefit of personal counseling when he needs it as it… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
It is difficult to give children a sense of security unless you have it yourself. If you have it, they catch it from you. — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
The Criteria of Emotional Maturity: The ability to deal constructively with reality The capacity to adapt to change A relative freedom from symptoms that… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Maturity is the capacity to love, to care about other people in the broadest sense ... and to continue to increase this capacity beyond… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity. — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
The amount of satisfaction you get from life depends largely on your own ingenuity, self-sufficiency, and resourcefulness. People who wait around for life to… — William C. Menninger Copy Share Image
