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Quotes About Maturity

To my mind, if you don't know anything about the lives of the people you meet then they will be inclined to treat you like a child, but if you can hunt, if you can make fire, if you can make shelter and you know how to take care of yourself, they see this; they know the time it takes to acquire those skills and they will treat you as an adult. From that, they might involve you in conversations that you would not otherwise have. That is what I wanted to try to tap into. I
~ Ray Mears
It takes about ten years to get used to how old you are.
~ Raymond A. Michel in The Leaf
She dresses herself with strength and makes her arms strong." But she is not using her strengths and abilities to compete with her husband. She is not driven by an identity crisis or treating her marriage as a matter of sexual politics. She is too mature for that. She is giving herself away to her husband, her family, and her community with wholehearted selflessness. A woman of this quality is rare: "An excellent wife who can find? She is far more precious than jewels.
~ Raymond C. Ortlund Jr.
The best substitute for experience is being sixteen.
~ Raymond Duncan
Boys... You're all idiots" - Carlaine
~ Raymond E. Feist
Children were hard to deal with; children who were on the verge of adulthood must be the hardest of all. Maybe she'd been too difficult for Emily, and that was a sad thought. "I
~ Rebecca Forster
If you want to act like a butthead, your butt is going to get locked up.
~ Michael Nutter
By the time I'm 90, I hope to have it together.
~ Herbie Mann
Leadership cannot be taught. Either you're a leader by the time you're 12 years old, or you never will be.
~ Jon Taffer
By the time I was, you know, 16 years old, I had done a lot of growing up.
~ Black Thought
If there are two things you must be by the time you hit your 40s - be kind and be educated. If you don't have time for both - be kind!
~ Shweta Bachchan Nanda
I feel like since I was 27, I was calling myself 30. And then, when it happened, it was like, 'I'm finally here now. This is it.
~ Autre Ne Veut
As adults, we do know more, but we don't know enough. People can be very unthinkingly callous.
~ Dennis Potter
Once you are experienced, your mind is calm and at ease.
~ Shikhar Dhawan
People are marked down for their age - once you get past 30, people look at you a bit funny. When you get to 35, the questions are all, 'When are you going to stop?' Calm down!
~ Dani Alves
I'm staggered when I look back at how, when I got to Cambridge, I didn't know anything of the world.
~ Alexander Armstrong
I still feel that I'm capable of being as emotionally present as when I was young.
~ Edward Hirsch
Nobody is a born captain. He learns with time.
~ Shahid Afridi
Responsibility makes a player better. I was made the captain of Maharashtra senior team when I was 16 or 17. I know how to take the team forward. I had been through the responsibilities.
~ Smriti Mandhana
As I get older, I think I'm going to continue to be a better player and a better captain.
~ Joe Thornton
I wish I could be more carefree. I grew up fast.
~ Saweetie
My cares come from a very selfish place 'cause in reality I'm young, and I haven't had the experience to be mature yet.
~ Vince Staples
Odell is going to grow up. That why's he is bringing other people in his life so he can grow up. If he wasn't trying to grow up, he wouldn't be calling Cris Carter.
~ Cris Carter
Treat the audience with respect and maturity, and have a certain faith in them to catch up.
~ Duncan Jones