Quotes About Maturity

A close look at many churches will reveal that a central problem is the lack of biblical maturity among the men.

Girls are losing their virginity at 15, 16. I'm not promoting that. But my songs are talking... about me becoming a man.

Children find everything in nothing; men find nothing in everything.

I feel like you don't have to go through jail, that's not part of bein' a man.

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

A man should be like a child with his wives, but if they need him, he should act like a man

The true measure of a man is the degree to which he has managed to subjugate his ego.

No, Sir, claret is the liquor for boys; port for men: but he who aspires to be a hero must drink brandy. In the first place brandy will do soonest for a man what drinking can do for him.

As the sun is best seen at his rising and setting, so men's native dispositions are clearest seen when they are children, and when they are dying.

When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

You're not a man until your father says you're a man.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

I like a boyish quality in a man, somebody who is still adventurous. But I have no rules. I do not care - within reason - about your chronological age. I care whether you have passion in your life.

I ain't no gangster. I'm a grown man trying to run a business.

When I was a boy, I thought myself a man. Now that I am a man, I find myself a boy.

The sooner you treat your son as a man, the sooner he will be one.

I like men to behave like men. I like them strong and childish.

Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.

Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

To have become a deeper man is the privilege of those who have suffered.

Since I was 15 I've felt kinda like... an old man.

You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.

Young men not ought to marry yet, and old men never ought to marry at all.

We want to be, when we are young, A little man. I would like to be a big child, Stronger and fairer than a man, And more lucid than a child.