Quotes About Maturity

What they write in rule books and how things really work are never the same. We all learn that as we get older.

if children could be cloistered with other children, stripped of responsibility and independence, encouraged to develop only the trivializing emotions of greed, envy, jealousy, and fear, they would grow older but never truly grow up.

Maturity has by now been banished from nearly every aspect of our lives. Easy divorce laws have removed the need to work at relationships; easy credit has removed the need for fiscal self-control; easy entertainment has removed the need to learn to entertain oneself; easy answers have removed the need to ask questions. We have become a nation of children, happy to surrender our judgments and our wills to political exhortations and commercial blandishments that would insult actual adults.

The obligation to amuse and instruct myself was entirely my own, and people who didn't know that were childish people, to be avoided if possible. Certainly not to be trusted.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

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

no matter how tough you think you are, thought you were, you haven't been around long enough to be tested in many, many ways.

One of the reasons mature people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.

including three-year-olds—were regularly left home alone to care for themselves.5

Talk low, talk slow, and don't talk too much.

You have to be a man before you can be a gentleman.

When I was young I was sure of everything; in a few years, having been mistaken a thousand times, I was not half so sure of most things as I was before; at present, I am hardly sure of anything but what God has revealed to me." - John Wesley

It is fortunate that youth never recognizes its ignorance, for if it did it would not find the courage to get the habit of endurance. It is perhaps an instinct of the blood and flesh which prevents this knowledge and allows the boy to become the man who will live to see the folly of his existence.

Then he smiled fondly, as if at a memory; it occurred to him that he was nearly sixty years old and that he ought to be beyond the force of such passion, of such love. But he was not beyond it, he knew, and would never be. Beneath the numbness, the indifference, the removal, it was there, intense and steady; it had always been there

He spoke more confidently and felt a warm hard severity gather within him. He suspected that he was beginning, ten years late, to discover who he was; and the figure he saw was both more and less than he had once imagined it to be.

Immature men make decisions based on how they feel. Mature men make decisions based on what is right.

The way adults could talk themselves into and out of feeling okay about something always amazed her.

I suppose when they reach a certain age some men are afraid to grow up. It seems the older the men get, the younger their new wives get.

I think I'm finally growing up - and about time.

I am no longer afraid of getting old. Indeed I can't believe I ever said anything so stupid. So childish. So offensive and arrogant. But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore.

Sometimes there aren't any buts...If we accept what is our life, we grow through it and because of it. That's the way we grow up.

I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day.