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Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. -- Jim Rohn
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
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. -- John Huston Finley
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. -- Jules Feiffer
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. -- Tom Stoppard
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. -- Thomas A. Edison
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything. -- Kurt Vonnegut
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: 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
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. -- Karl Rahner
Maturity is highly overrated. -- Kelley Armstrong
Maturity comes with experience, not age. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. -- Sigmund Freud
Maturity is produced through relationships and community. -- Rick Warren
Maturity is a series of shattered illusions. -- LeVar Burton
When did you suddenly become Mister Maturity? -- Michael Buckley
Maturity and experience are part of my liberation. -- Alicia Keys
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. -- Elisabeth Elliot
Maturity is having the ability to escape categorization. -- Kenneth Rexroth
Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age. -- Leonard Ravenhill
Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes. -- Baltasar Gracian
Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. -- Baltasar Gracian
Maturity comes in three stages: dependence, independence and interdependence -- Jenna Jameson
Maturity means learning the value of that which is hard-earned. -- Philip Toshio Sudo
Maturity is a compound of wisdom, goodwill, resilience, and creativity. -- J. I. Packer
Maturity is the ability to live in someone else's world. -- Oren Arnold
Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things. -- Alain de Botton
Maturity is when all of your mirrors turn into windows. -- Henry David Thoreau
Maturity is having the courage to use one's own intelligence! -- Immanuel Kant
Maturity is the ability to joyfully live in an imperfect world. -- Richard Rohr
Maturity requires a final accommodation between our aspirations and our limitations. -- J. William Fulbright
Maturity does not always come with age; sometimes age comes alone. -- John C. Maxwell
Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions. -- Richard L. Evans
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. -- Joshua L. Liebman
Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect. -- Wes Fesler
Maturity involves two elements: 1) immediate obedience in specific situations and 2) long-range character growth. -- Larry Crabb
Maturity implies otherness... The art of living is the art of living with. -- Julius Gordon
Maturity isn't a product of growing older. It's a product of growing wiser. -- Ann Landers
Maturity is the ability to relate appropriately to other realities than one's own. -- Goswami Kriyananda
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me. -- Criss Jami
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Maturity is when you stop complaining and making excuses and start making changes. -- Roy Bennett
Maturity and experience shouldn't stop one from craving silly things like sliding down bannisters. -- Lewis Buzbee
Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.' -- Criss Jami
Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings. -- Rick Warren
Maturity is doing whatever you want, even if your parents want the same thing. -- Werner Erhard
Maturity is the ability to live in peace with that which we cannot change. -- Ann Landers
Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything. -- Frank Yerby
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others... -- Tsem Tulku
Maturity is most rapid in the low latitudes, where pineapples and women most do thrive. -- Nathaniel Parker Willis
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Maturity is largely about acquiring the confidence and the competence to make your own decisions. -- Susan Maushart
Maturity is about Challenging yourself and Improving! And then taking that experience to help others... -- Tsem Tulku
Maturity is when you no longer get the urge to make snow angels in mud season -- Josh Stern
Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea. -- Paul Watzlawick
Maturity brings - among other things - the ability to sustain and survive enormous contradictions and disappointments. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Maturity is a stage of life when you don't see eye to eye but can walk arm in arm. -- Claude Maxwell MacDonald
Maturity is when you start feeling the motion of zaman (time) as if it is a sensuous caress. p.216 -- Fatema Mernissi
Maturity is many things. It is the ability to base a judgment on the big picture, the long haul. -- Ann Landers
Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control. -- Alain de Botton
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something without feeling the necessity to prove someone else wrong. -- Sydney J. Harris
Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become? -- Elyse Fitzpatrick
Maturity of a woman is not in her age or size for age is just a number and size is figure. -- Jaachynma N.E. Agu
With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. -- Bela Bartok
Maturity is the ability to sort the portions of truth from the accepted lies and self-deceptions that you have grown up with. -- Alexei Panshin
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 when we live by the truths that are in our heart and soul, truths we believe to be right for us. -- Jeane Kirkpatrick
God...doesn't intend to help us live the Christian life. Immaturity considers the Lord Jesus a Helper. Maturity knows Him to be life itself. -- Miles J. Stanford
Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Be the person you are. Never try to be another, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost. -- Rajneesh
We do not ignore maturity. Maturity consists in not losing the past while fully living in the present with a prudent awareness of the possibilities of the future. -- Thomas Traherne
Maturity is perseverance-the ability to sweat out a project or a situation, in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks, and stick with it until it is finished. -- Ann Landers
Maturity, as I conceived it, was recognizing what was bad or peculiar in life, admitting it has to stay that way, and going ahead with the best of things. -- Richard Ford
Growing older doesn't mean that you are more mature than everyone who is younger than you. Maturity is a lot of things, and age has nothing to do with it. -- Abhishek Shukla
While she was working on Maturity, ... M. Rodin is well aware that people have imagined that he did my sculpture why then do all one can to give credence to these lies. -- Paul Claudel
Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it. Immature people spend their lives exploring endless possibilities and then doing nothing. Action requires courage. Without courage, little is accomplished. -- Ann Landers
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. -- Soren Kierkegaard
Longing for the ideal while criticizing the real is evidence of immaturity. On the other hand, settling for the real without striving for the ideal is complacency. Maturity is living with the tension. -- Rick Warren
Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong." And, when he/she is right, the mature person need not experience the satisfaction of saying, "I told you so." -- Ann Landers
Maturity is simply the process of discovering that everything you believed in when you were young is false and that all the things you refused to believe in turn out to be true. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which cannot be changed, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference. -- Ann Landers
Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face. -- Virginia Graham
How do we know that Moses was grown up? Because he went out unto his brethren, and was ready to bear the burdens and share the plight of his people. Maturity is sensitivity to human suffering. -- Julius Gordon
Maturity is the ability to do a job whether you're supervised or not; finish a job once it's started; carry money without spending it; and the ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even. -- Abigail Van Buren
Few endeavors, if any at all, I find to be inherently mature or inherently immature. Maturity is neither defined by one's particular preferences nor by one's particular activities; rather, it is defined by the strength of one's character. -- Criss Jami
I wish it were O.K. in this country to look one's age, whatever it is. Maturity has a lot going for it, even in terms of esthetics. For example, you no longer get bubblegum stuck in your braces. -- Cyra McFadden
Maturity is the ability to harness your abilities and your energies and do more than is expected. The mature person refuses to settle for mediocrity. He/she would rather aim high and miss the mark than low-and make it. -- Ann Landers
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
Age is no guarantee of maturity. -- Lawana Blackwell
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person. -- Brian Tracy
Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself. -- Nicole Scherzinger
It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. -- Livy
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death. -- Dave Barry
Mankind grows taller, older, and ever more wise; but seldom truly up. -- Wes Fesler
Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility. -- Bill Vaughan
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes -- Fritz Kunkel
Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity. -- Tracy McMillan
How do you know that the fruit is ripe? Simply because it leaves the branch. -- Andre Gide
'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. -- Martha Graham
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate. -- Douglas Engelbart
I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. -- Albert Einstein
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. -- William Arthur Ward
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. -- Rumi
Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder. -- Zig Ziglar
The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay. -- Wendell Berry
Most parents have long understood that kids don't have the judgment, the maturity, the impulse control and insight necessary to make complicated lifelong decisions. -- Bryan Stevenson
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 plant. -- Giovanni Pico della Mirandola
Avoiding maturity is, for many men, not just a cute hobby, but a life's work - often handsomely rewarded in the infantile popular culture of the West. -- Michael Leunig
I just want to be remembered as a person who loved God, who served others more than he served himself, who was trying to grow in maturity and stability. -- Mike Yaconelli
Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened. -- Jack Kornfield
The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity. -- Pope John Paul II
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The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time. -- Muhammad Iqbal
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
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. -- Christopher Reeve
I don't think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It's just maturity. I've become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence. -- Ricky Williams
A strong sense of humor, a really awesome personality, and maturity is also really important in a boyfriend. I tend to only be attracted to older guys for that reason. I just love guys who have a really strong sense of who they are. -- Elizabeth Gillies
The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? -- Dan Quayle

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