Quotes About Maturity

What we call the wisdom that comes with age is usually simple caution.

Spiritual growth is the only real growth

The unteachable man is sentenced to being taught only by experience. The tragedy is he reaches nothing further than his own pain.

You gain wisdom and you don't make the same mistakes.

Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.

It would not be worth your while to reach the age of seventy if all the wisdom of the world were to be foolishness before God.

Throw all caution to the wind, today, on your 40th No need to have wisdom and sage But tomorrow, as you start your 5th decade Do try to act more your age

Assuming, as you grow older, that you're the guardian of the world's wisdom, even if you haven't necessarily lived enough to know what's right and wrong.

There is no such thing as the old age of the wise.

Youth is harmed by having wisdom thrust upon it. Youth must gather wisdom slowly, in laughter and tears.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Maturity gives us jealous eyes. We look with jealousy on the younger woman because she doesn't know as much now as we do, and, oh, what we could do with our wisdom and her face.

The scarcity of years does not necessitate lack of wisdom.

Experience does by no means automatically leads to wisdom and understanding.

Our relationship was forged slowly over time, and strengthened by the combination of the intense fire of his high expectations and my determination to learn. It matured when it became a "learning relationship" and my respect for him caught up with his respect for me.

When one's young, everything is a rehearsal. To be repeated ad lib, to be put right when the curtain goes up in earnest. One day you know that the curtain was up all the time. That was the performance.

Maturity begins when you are content with knowing what you are saying is correct, rather than prove that someone else is wrong

Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until... we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say "I lost it."

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice — that is, until we have stopped saying "It got lost," and say, "I lost it.

Parents should learn to stop nagging their children about how well they could do "if you only tried more, or cared more." Trying and caring, in specific areas, is built into people; or else it comes to them later, if they mature properly; or it never comes at all. But it is dead certain that no young person was ever motivated by a querulous, disappointed parent more concerned with his own pride than with the child's ultimate self-actualization.

Genuine love for a child, it seems to me, must include a desire for his maturity and ultimately his independence. WAtching a personality unfold is perhaps the deepest pleasure of parenthood; wishing, or trying, to retard this growth is one of the deepest sins.

But what about me? Who will I lean on? I guess this is what growing up really means, Grace. Standing on your own two feet and being your own mountain.

The heart ages last.