Quotes About Maturity

Girls are afraid to be alone, women revel in it, using it as a time for personal growth.

It`s not so much that they don`t want me to grow up. It`s that they`re annoyed that I`m growing up adjusted. They`d much rather I was growing up and going wild and crashing cars.

A man who lives long enough will be a boy twice.

The childish urge to understand everything doesn't necessarily fade when the time approaches for you to do the most adult thing of all: vanish.

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

You have to learn to do everything even to die.

The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.

It seems to me that any full grown, mature adult would have a desire to be responsible, to help where he can in a world that needs so very much, that threatens us so very much.

It came to me late, as an adult, the desire to draw and participate in the world of lines.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

At twenty you have many desires which hide the truth, but beyond forty there are only real and fragile truths - your abilities and your failings.

In youth we are plagued by desire; in later years, by the desire to feel desire.

But they (the infantry) had no use for boys of twelve and thirteen, and before I had a chance in another war, the desire to kill people to whom I had not been introduced had passed away.

The intelligent desire self-control; children want candy.

Being young is wonderful. But one of the secrets of being a human individual - a mature human individual shall we put it rather grandly - is that you can see this desire in perspective.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility - these are marks of maturity and graciousness.

Silence is the adornment of the wise, and for the foolish the only dignity possible.

The general impression is that fifteen year-old Dolly remains morbidly uninterested in sexual matters, or to be exact, represses her curiosity in order to save her ignorance and self-dignity.

Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.

People think of education as something that they can finish.

The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.

Education is preparation to live completely.