Quotes About Maturity

Raising kids makes most people, including me, grow up at least a little.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.

Except, I think, it's more about me growing up and becoming an adult that I have this new best-friend type of relationship with my mom.

I'm getting to a point in my life where my whole attitude about the relationship between myself and the audience is totally different.

Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.

Like true philosophers I've come to believe that religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown after proper education.

One cannot really be a Catholic and grown up.

Believing in religion is like believing that adulthood is the solution to childhood.

Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.

It hurts so badly when you grow up and understand that everything you believed in and devoted yourself were just fallacy and stupidity.

Thou shalt not unfollow someone, merely because they stopped following you.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.

The early and the latter part of human life are the best, or, at least, the most worthy of respect; the one as the age of innocence, the other of reason.

Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.

Every once in a while, you live long enough to get the respect that people didn't want to give while you were trying to become a senior citizen.

You've got to earn respect as life goes on.

I get much more respect, as befits my age. And I have nothing to complain about.

I've grown up and understood how I'm supposed to conduct myself and I respect people as I go along the way.

How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?

Only with maturity did I come to appreciate my own Chinese roots: not just the food and the ancient history, but also the philosophy of child-rearing and the respect for education and knowledge.

A real man isn't somebody who takes advantage of a young girl but who treats her with respect.

When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.