Quotes About Maturity

Being in your mid-thirties brought benefits, I reminded myself. You began to appreciate tidiness, smallness, things in their place.

I henceforth tread the world, chaste, temperate, an early riser, a steady grower.

I swear the earth shall surely be complete to him or her who shall be complete; The earth remains jagged and broken only to him or her who remains jagged and broken.

I don't think how old a person is has anything to do with what he really is himself.

Life is going to be harder for some people. It's going to be harder at different times in our lives. But if you're not ready to die today, then you're going to be responsible for tomorrow, whether you like it or not.

Men ought not to play God before they learn to be men.

Jobs knew that he was not ready to run the company himself, even though there was a part of him that wanted to try. Despite his arrogance, he could be self-aware. Markkula agreed; he told Jobs that he was still a bit too rough-edged and immature to be Apple's president. So they launched a search for someone from the outside.

Henry V—the story of a willful and immature prince who becomes a passionate but sensitive, callous but

his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty. That held true for Jobs in his thirties, during the decade that began with his ouster from Apple in 1985. But after turning forty in 1995, he flourished.

After growing wildly for years, the field of computing appears to be reaching its infancy.

It's rare that you see an artist in his thirties or forties able to really contribute something amazing," Jobs declared as he was about to turn thirty.

to put anything off-limits. "I've done a lot of things I'm not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was twenty-three and the way I handled that," he said. "But I don't have any skeletons in my closet that can't be allowed out." He didn't seek any control over what I wrote, or even ask to read it in advance. His only involvement came when my publisher was choosing the cover

She's everything I wanted when I was young and everything I distrust now that I'm not.

What if' is fo' chirrens, Easy. You's a man.

I seen it all," old Coydog used to say, "but that don't mean I seen everything.

Jackson Blue, who had read and retained every important book the central library had to offer, once told me that when a child is orphaned at an early age a large part of his psyche remains fixated there. "It's like the boy just turns into a man instead'a growin' up into one," he said.

he is not fit to visit strange countries, who cannot rule his tongue before his own countrymen

I do know that when I am 60, I should be attempting to achieve different personal goals than those which had priority at age 20.

The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.

all of life is a movement toward perfection

But in my heart I knew the old Bryce was toast. There was no going back. Not to Garrett or Shelly or Miranda or any of the other people who wouldn't understand. Juli was different, but after all these years that didn't bother me anymore. I liked it. I liked her.

Nobody ever outgrows Scripture the book widens and deepens with our years.

The Founders believed that liberty depended on persons with the maturity to avoid both radical self-assertion and a timid reliance on the state.

If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.