Quotes About Maturity

When one is young and on the threshold of life's long deception, rashness is all. —Françoise Sagan1

How much smaller the large places are once we're grown up, when we have car keys and credit cards.

We are all works in progress until the moment we die, none of us complete until that precise event.

A clever girl may pass through the phase of foolish miss on the way to sensible woman.

He'd assumed that you went to school because you had to learn things, starting off with the easy stuff and moving on to the bigger issues, and once you'd learned them that was it, the way ahead opened up and thereafter life was simple and straightforward. What a joke. The older he got, the more complicated and obscure everything became.

But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty or fifty. I am waiting for my Experience.

But I am too young yet to think of peace. It is not peace that I want. Peace is for forty and fifty; I am waiting for my Experience. I am awaiting the coming of the Devil.

You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk.

A mature organization focuses on learning effectively and empowers the people who do the work to make decisions.

All these years you have made a boy of him. But with me, he shall be a man

At twenty-three, one is not frightened off a conversation merely by the fear of its becoming intense.

A man is at his youngest when he thinks he is a man, not yet realizing that his actions must show it.

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself.

Maud Wainwright, a big, irregularly handsome woman, probably fifty and not ashamed of it

Forget the garden rake. Remember that time you dived over the desk at that guy in moot court? Had him by the throat in two seconds flat, that's what I heard." "You heard wrong." "And they suspended you for how long?" Antonia innocently asked. "A day. And I apologized. Actually I crawled like a slug and ate dirt," Bree said ruefully. "But that was years ago, and have I pulled a stunt like that again? No, I have not.

Only a child expects life to be just; it's a man's part to stand by the consequences of his deeds.

We're all like children. We may think we grow up, but to me, being grown up is death, stopping thinking, trying to find out things, going on learning.

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

The sign of an intelligent people is their ability to control emotions by the application of reason.

I supposed this is what is meant by 'growing up'...Find out the difference between what one expected one's life would be like and how things really are" -Lady Constance

You are truly mature if you can listen lightly, as if to an echo, to criticism or to vile blasphemy, no matter how unbearable, without reacting. As long as you are not attached to fame, glory, reputation, or social status, there is no need to suffer. A person without attachments has neither lifelong enemies to overthrow nor any need to flatter people in power.

For many, immaturity is an ideal, not a defect.

Women encourage men to be childish, then scold them.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.