Quotes About Maturity

It was not intelligent to damage the ego of a young boy. You can, with some impunity, insult an older man who has already been humiliated by life itself and will not take to heart the small slights of another human being. But a young man thinks these offences mortal.

It's more important that you grow up to be a man," he said, "than to be a genius.

I was forty-five years old and tired of being an artist. Besides, I owed $20,000 to relatives, finance companies, banks and assorted bookmakers and shylocks. It was really time to grow up and sell out as Lenny Bruce once advised. So I told my editors 'OK, I'll write a book about the mafia, just give me some money to get started'.

Michael stood up and yelled, "You lousy bastard, he's my father. I'm not supposed to help him? I can help. I don't have to go out and kill people but I can help. Stop treating me like a kid brother.

He was a man in the prime of his life, his fifties...broad forehead, aquiline nose, penetrating gaze, the very soul of rectitude and goodness.

Is she sad? she asked. No, honey. She's lived-in.

even though adults were tall, what we knew about anything, including ourselves, was small.

Oh my!! How you've grown. Soon you'll be catching the Lord's balls.

With this first cigarette, I kissed childhood goodbye. Now I was a grown-up.

Dalam hidup kau akan bertemu banyak orang brengsek. Kalau mereka menyakitimu, katakan pada dirimu sendiri itu karena mereka bodoh. Itu akan membantu mencegahmu bereaksi pada kekejaman mereka. Karena tidak ada yang lebih buruk daripada kebencian dan balas dendam. Selalu jaga martabatmu dan jujurlah pada dirimu sendiri.

You don't grow up, you grow old.

The ability to find solutions to life's challenges is what makes us grow as a person.

we preach with the goal of spurring believers on in their maturity in Christ and of awakening nonbelievers to their need for the Savior.

The essence of masculinity is taking responsibility for yourself, then a wife, then children. These are the kinds of things the Bible says qualify a man to be a church leader.[198] Guys who don't do this act irresponsibly, take rather than give, and dump their responsibilities on others by virtue of their childish ways. This is why Jeremiah wrote, "It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is young."[199] Men are like trucks: they drive straighter when carrying a load.

That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.

Your children never really grew up. Thirty year's on and they still behaved like five-year old's. One minute they were your best friend. Then you said the wrong thing and they went off like firecrackers.

But you reached a stage where you realized it was a waste of energy trying to change your parents' minds about anything, ever.

We still talk in terms of conquest," she observed. "We still haven't become mature enough to think of ourselves as only a tiny part of a vast and incredible universe." Without hesitating, she delivered her final blow: "I think we're challenged as mankind has never been challenged before, to prove our maturity and our mastery, not of nature, but of ourselves.

an old man with a cane may discover that his many years have added nothing to his innocence but proof and explanation, and that, as much as he may have learned in his long life, he cannot see as far as he could see when he was seven

Nothing is born as strong as it can become.

In his book Men to boys: The Making of Modern Immaturity, Gary Cross asks simply: Where have all the men gone? Like George Will, Victor David Hanson, and others who've posed that question, Professor Cross is no doubt aware that he sounds old and square. But in a land of middle-aged teenagers somebody has to.

If any "white supremacist" were really a "supremacist", he wouldn't be living in his mom's basement.

Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.

When we lose our innocence—when we start feeling the weight of the atmosphere and learn that there's death in the pot—we take leave of our senses.