Quotes About Maturity

Men grow to the stature to which they are stretched when they are young.

You think being a man is being strong, being hard, knowing how to defend yourself. But being a man is about learning how to walk away.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I have been young and am now old, and have not yet known an untruthful man to come to a good end.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946

Many a man who has known himself at ten forgets himself utterly between ten and thirty.

When I was a kid, I slept on rubber sheets, but now, I'm a man. And I can take the wetness!

I wouldn't trade those 10 years for anything. The Navy taught me a lot of things. It molded me as a man, and I made a lot of wonderful friends.

Thank God we're not like America. Everyone wants to look like they're 20. In Europe we admire grown-up women; I think men revere older women.

For one who has not lived even a single lifetime, you are a wise man, Van Helsing.

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

No man is matriculated to the art of life till he has been well tempted.

In the meanest are all the materials of manhood, only they are not rightly disposed.

You take all the experience and judgment of men over 50 out of the world and there wouldn't be enough left to run it.

You must remember not to build on prayer and contemplation alone. Unless you strive to live the virtues, you will never grow beyond the stature of spiritual dwarves.

If I were to give advice, I would say to parents that they ought to be very careful whom they allow to mix with their children when young; for much mischief thence ensues, and our natural inclinations are unto evil rather than unto good.

Maturity comes when we tend to our inner children and don't inflict them on our partners to care for.

Before we can provide corrective emotional experiences for each other, we must learn how to tend to our own immature parts, to our own reactivity, to our avoidance, our long-suffering frustration. We must master the art of relational mindfulness and retake the reins.

Pia Mellody, spoke of the Adaptive Child as a "kid in grown-up's clothing." The Adaptive Child is a child's version of an adult, the you that you cobbled together in the absence of healthy parenting. Here's a chart detailing the traits of the Adaptive Child, as distinct from the Wise Adult.

We all know what fight looks like. As for flight, just a reminder that someone can sit inches away from another and still flee—they just do so internally. We call that stonewalling. Finally, the knee-jerk response of fixing is not the same as a mature, considered wish to work on the relationship. Adaptive Child fixers are fueled by an anxious, driven need to take anyone's tension away from them as quickly as possible. Their motto is "I'm upset until you're not.

Adolescence is society's permission slip for combining physical maturity with psychological irresponsibility.

No, no, not at all. I'm a professional. If I can't take criticism, how will I ever grow?

After a girl is grown, her little brothers — now her protectors — seem like big brothers.