Quotes About Maturity

And yet there is not in France, with its rich variety of soil and climate, a blade, a leaf, a root, a sprig, a peppercorn, which will grow to maturity under conditions more certain than those that have produced this horror. Crush

He stands precociously possessed of centuries of owlish wisdom. If he ever lay in a cradle, it seems as if he must have lain there in a tail-coat.

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him.

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value.

There was a curious mixture in the boy, of uncompleted savagery, and uncompleted civilization.

it always grieves me to contemplate the initiation of children into the ways of life, when they are scarcely more than infants. It checks their confidence and simplicity—two of the best qualities that Heaven gives them—and demands that they share our sorrows before they are capable of entering into our enjoyments.

Boys are very like men to be sure.

Confieso que me habría gustado gozar de las alegres libertades de un niño, y ser lo bastante mayor para apreciar su dolor.

in short, I should have liked, I do confess, to have had the lightest licence of a child, and yet to have been man enough to know its value. But

Blame is easy. Taking responsibility is hard. Anger is easy. Self-control is hard.

What is a "total" or "real" man? He is one who understands and accepts the responsibility for the development of his mental, emotional, and spiritual capacity and demonstrates this by his maturing attitude and actions in his personal life, his home life, his vocational life, his social life, and his spiritual life.

consider it all joy, my brethren, when you encounter various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces endurance. And let endurance have its perfect result, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing" (James 1:2-4). God's

Es por ello que como creyentes deberíamos continuar madurando a fin de que no necesitemos que nadie más nos enseñe. Si bien es cierto que Dios ha mandado pastores como predicadores, el crecimiento personal de nuestro ser espiritual debería ser nuestra prioridad.

Dios puede permitir una situación en su vida para desarrollar fe, crecimiento y madurez más fuertes, o para cambiar un mal hábito o una actitud negativa. Pero Dios no lo llama a preocuparse.

As long as you're green, you're growing; as soon as you're ripe, you start to rot.

Adults are obsolete children...

We mature in knowledge and wisdom but never leave the playground of our hearts.

A man is getting old when he walks around a puddle instead of through it.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

If you don't get enough time-outs as a child, you get them as a grownup.

A fine layer of dust must settle on literature before it's truly complete.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.

Boys will be boys — and so will a lot of middle-aged men.