Quotes About Maturity

And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different you will be.

Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything" (James 1:4

Let the wind of God's comforting, guiding Spirit life you above temporary problems. With His help, you can soar to new heights of maturity and confidence.

I have gotten to the age where I try and let other people solve their own problems." "What age is that, anyway?

When I hired him I told him two things: no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . ." "Amen to that, and the other?" "Never go after a man to arrest him unless you are certain you are legally right, but then arrest him or die.

no man has any sense till age thirty-five and damn few afterwards . . .

I have a wonderful respect for old people.

Subí a mi habitación y me serví un whisky. Gran error: al primer trago me entraron arcadas. Me estaba haciendo viejo para aquellos trotes.

Everyone ages. Everyone can learn a trade and pay taxes and have a family. But that's not growin up. It's about how you act when your shit gets shaken up, it's about how much you see around you. That's what makes a man.

We never fooled around much, even though she was older. She was strange about that stuff. But I never cared really. its not why I brang her here anyways.

An unrenewed mind is a mind that lacks the knowledge of God's Word. A lack of knowledge about the Word keeps us from maturing spiritually.

I'm actually tougher on myself as I get older. It's a vicious cycle. The things that are important in life are the things that you can't buy in life: love, health and happiness. I say that, and I believe that, and I try to live that.

A child learns by growing, an adult learns to grow.

I think America has more than enough maturity and intelligence to start exercising its world leadership responsibly.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.

She believed in second chances, sometimes more than first chances, which were wasted on youth and indiscretion

Young writers if they are to mature require a period of between three and seven years in which to live down their promise. Promise is like the mediaeval hangman who after settling the noose, pushed his victim off the platform and jumped on his back, his weight acting a drop while his jockeying arms prevented the unfortunate from loosening the rope. When he judged him dead he dropped to the ground.

You know, sir," he said, "she was easily the nicest woman I ever knew." Sampson suppressed a smile. It was funny to hear a boy of seventeen talk like that. All the same, he reflected, the lad might live to seventy and still find no reason to change his opinion.

When you are young you are too busy with yourself - so Caroline thought - you haven't time for ordinary little things

Roger reflected that it was a pity children had to grow up; by this time next year Stephen would be a schoolboy and the childish innocence would have vanished . . . but one could not help it of course. One could only do one's best to see that the child grew into a boy and the boy into a man smoothly, and with the least possible suffering . . . and that there were as few "nasty things" as possible in his cupboard of memory to roll out unexpectedly and make him uncomfortable.

When we're young we make our beds and when we're older we have to lie on them. I'd make myself a comfortable bed if I were you—straight and tidy with the blankets well tucked in at the foot—then it'll not come adrift when you lie in it. If a bed's not properly made at the start the blankets'll maybe fall off in the night and you'll wake up shivering

When you're very young you take people as you find them. It's only when you've had experience that you begin to measure and weigh.

No, she was not like other people. Other people took grown-up things as a matter of course—things like late dinner, and wine, driving cars and going to the theater; things like marriage and housekeeping and ordering commodities from the shops; whereas she was just playing at it all the time, pretending to be grown up, when, really and truly all the time, she was just Barbara—a plain, gawky child. She had the same body

I am pleased to say that as I get older, I get less and less like the sitcom 'Miranda.' She is really a clown character, a heightened version of the 20-something me.