Maturity Quotes

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Maturity is not equated with independence though it includes a certain capacity for independence...The independence of the mature person is simply that he does not… — Nancy Chodorow
To grow mature is to separate more distinctly, to connect more closely. — Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I used a lot of quotes when I was young. To make me sound mature, to make me feel like I wasn't the second-class entity… — Gerard Jones
Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. — Frank Yerby
Whatever seeds each man cultivates will grow to maturity and bear in him their own fruit. If they be vegetative, he will be like a… — Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on. — Joe E. Lewis
One does not get better but different and older and that is always a pleasure. — Gertrude Stein
The scientist, by the very nature of his commitment, creates more and more questions, never fewer. Indeed the measure of our intellectual maturity, one philosopher… — Gordon Allport
When your through changing, your through! — John C. Maxwell
Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise. — John C. Maxwell
People change when they hurt enough that they have to change, learn enough that they want to change, receive enough that they are able to… — John C. Maxwell
Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. — Wes Fesler
While parents should always provide shelter from a storm, they should sometimes allow children to play in the rain. — Wes Fesler
Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. — Wes Fesler
It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. — George Bernard Shaw
There was that word again.Mature. Was this what maturity was? Giving up on the things we wanted because we knew we'd never get them? — Diana Peterfreund
If you're any good at all, you know you can be better. — Lindsey Buckingham
That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the… — Pema Chodron
Youth condemns; maturity condones — Amy Lowell
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes — Fritz Kunkel

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