Quotes by Maturity In his extreme youth Stoner had thought of love as an absolute state of being to which, if one were lucky, one might find access; in his maturity he had decided it was the heaven of a false religion, toward which one ought to gaze with an amused disbelief, a gently familiar contempt, and an embarrassed nostalgia. Now in his middle age he began to know that it was neither a state of grace nor an illusion; he saw it as a human act of becoming, a condition that was invented and modified moment by moment and day by day, by the will and the intelligence and the heart. John Edward Williams maturityheartheaven Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process. John Dewey maturitygrowthprocess While personal maturity may mean being able to see beyond yourself, leadership maturity means considering others before yourself. John C. Maxwell maturitymaymean I don't know whether it's age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price. John le Carre maturitydemocracyage When your through changing, your through! John C. Maxwell maturity Change means traveling in uncharted waters and this causes our securities to rise. John C. Maxwell uncharted-watersmaturitymean The great French Marshall Lyautey once asked his gardener to plant a tree. The gardner objected that the tree was slow growing and wouldn't reach maturity for 100 years. The Marshall replied, "In that case, there is no time to lose; plant it this afternoon! John F. Kennedy maturitytimescience The American civil space program is growing to maturity. It has passed through the joys and crises of precocious childhood and now is being called upon to do grown-up things, like earn a living and establish permanent roots in space. John Noble Wilford maturityspaceroots What am I then...? Everything that I have seen, heard, and observed I have collected and exploited. My works have been nourished by countless different individuals, by innocent and wise ones, people of intelligence and dunces. Childhood, maturity and old age all have brought me their thoughts....their perspectives on life. I have often reaped what others have sowed. My work is the work of a collective being that bears the name Goethe. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe maturitywisenames And only the very courageous will be able to keep alive the spirit of individualism and dissent which gave birth to this nation, nourished it as an infant, and carried it through its severest tests upon the attainment of its maturity. John F. Kennedy maturityaliveinspirational The God understood as a father figure, who guided ultimate personal decisions, answered our prayers, and promised rewards and punishment based upon our behavior was not designed to call anyone into maturity. John Shelby Spong maturityprayerfather When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable. John Steinbeck maturityjobstravel 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. John Updike crymaturitymature In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion. Joko Beck maturitycompassionspiritual When I was very young and the urge to be someplace was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. John Steinbeck maturitymaturepeople We are like a rider on top of a gigantic elephant. We can steer the elephant, and if he's not busy, he'll go where we want, but if he has other desires, he'll often go where he wants. How can one control the elephant? In part, this comes with maturity. In part, this comes with the development of your frontal cortex, so the frontal areas of the brain are especially involved in self-control, in suppressing your initial instinct to act. This is why teenagers are so impulsive. So it's terrible to allow the death penalty for teenagers, because they really don't have working brains yet. Jonathan Haidt teenagermaturitybrain This fighting-shy of every obligation partly explains the phenomenon, half ridiculous, half disgraceful, Of the setting-up in our days of the platform of "youth" as youth. ... In comic fashion people call themselves "young," because they have heard that youth has more rights than obligations, since it can put off the fulfilment of these latter to the Greek Kalends of maturity. ...[T]he astounding thing at present is that these take it as an effective right precisely in order to claim for themselves all those other rights which only belong to the man who has already done something. Jose Ortega y Gasset maturityfashionfighting Spaniards have always shown great maturity and great common sense when it comes to voting. Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero common-sensevotingmaturity Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not. Joseph B. Wirthlin maturitydisciplinemind When a woman comes to her class, she does not employ her time in making herself look more advantageously what she really is, but endeavours to be as much another creature as she possibly can. Whether this happens because they stay so long and attend their work so diligently that they forget the faces and persons, which they first sat down with, or whatever it is, they seldom rise from the toilet the same woman they appeared when they began to dress Joseph Addison maturityclasslong«1112131415161718192021»
