Quotes by Maturity 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 perseverancesweatmaturity Adolescence is a tough time for parent and child alike. It is a time between: between childhood and maturity, between parental protection and personal responsibility, between life stage- managed by grown-ups and life privately held. Anna Quindlen maturityresponsibilitychildren Our children tremble in their teen-age cribs, Anne Sexton motorcyclematuritychildren As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused. Anthony Burgess confusedmaturitymemories I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words. Anthony Doerr maturityfunschool Life is a vexatious trap; when a thinking man reaches maturity and attains to full consciousness he cannot help feeling that he is in a trap from which there is no escape. Anton Chekhov maturitymenthinking They must move from a psychological state of victimization to a psychological state of accepting responsibility. The Palestinians must leave behind their revolutionary adolescence and demonstrate that they have reached political maturity. Ari Shavit maturityresponsibilitymoving The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit. Aristotle maturityexcellencegiving Civilization will reach maturity only when it learns to value diversity of character and of ideas. Arthur C. Clarke maturitycharactercivilization Of all the intellectual faculties, judgment is the last to mature. A child under the age of fifteen should confine its attention either to subjects like mathematics, in which errors of judgment are impossible, or to subjects in which they are not very dangerous, like languages, natural science, history, etc. Arthur Schopenhauer maturitymathchildren The nobler and more perfect a thing is, the later and slower it is in arriving at maturity. A man reaches the maturity of his reasoning powers and mental faculties hardly before the age of twenty-eight; a woman at eighteen. Arthur Schopenhauer eightmaturitymen I believe my signal of maturity as a filmmaker iswhen I'll actually acknowledge the fact that the first take is usuallythe best. Atom Egoyan maturitybelievefirsts Maturity of mind is best shown in slow belief. Baltasar Gracian maturitybeliefmind Maturity is the slowness in which a man believes. Baltasar Gracian maturitymenbelieve That's maturity-when you realize that you've finally arrived at a state of ignorance as profound as your parents. Barbara Mertz maturityignoranceprofound With maturity comes the wish to economize - to be more simple. Maturity is the period when one finds the just measure. Bela Bartok maturitysimplewish When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think. Benedict Cumberbatch maturitystarskids I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity. Benjamin Disraeli maturitytimebelieve America has never forgotten - and never will forget - the nobler things that brought her into being and that light her path - the path that was entered upon only one hundred and fifty years ago ... How young she is! It will be centuries before she will adopt that maturity of custom - the clothing of the grave - that some people believe she is already fitted for. Bernard Baruch maturitybelieveyears I don't believe that there is a human creature in his senses, arrived to maturity, that at some time or other has not been carried away by this passion (sc. envy) in good earnest; yet I never met with any one who dared own he was guilty of it but in jest. Bernard de Mandeville maturitypassionbelieve«1234567891011»
