Quotes About Maturity

When you cannot find a pill for it, try taking a full dosage of responsibility

Those who do not know history will forever remain children

The thoughtful believer recalls God's faithfulness in the past when confronted by any new threat. Part of spiritual maturity is strong sense of one's own history.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to continue always a child.

We know from our own history that democratic institutions take decades to mature, and we know from past conflicts that freedom is not free.

Historically, the best way to convert liberals is to have them move out of their parents' home, get a job, and start paying taxes.

When you get older, if you are healthy, is not a problem. If you don't have the health, then you go home.

Children who cling to parents or who don't want to leave home are stunted in their emotional, psychological growth.

I didn't grow up in a regular upbringing. I ended up at my grandmother's house past a certain age, so I took care of things myself. I moved out of home when I was 16.

Another thing I liked about my Dad at church: he did his sleeping at home. He never used the church as an adult nursery.

Just because you didn't get your way, don't take your ball and go home.

And it took me, since I was 17 and left home, running from God, to now, as a 30-year-old man, when I honestly feel like I've come full circle and my heart's finally in the right place.

Most guys my age are boring human beings. They sit in bars, get drunk, and then go home to tell their kids the way to rule their lives, while they're absolutely stewed out of their brains.

But where, after we have made the great decision to leave the security of childhood and move on into the vastness of maturity, does anybody ever feel completely at home?

I'm 47 now, and I'm at that stage where I'm still young but I'm not young. I'm not old but I'm getting old, and I have stuff at home that reminds me of people and places.

Basically my wife was immature. I'd be at home in the bath and she'd come in and sink my boats.

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

It doesn't mean old or younger. I've learned a lot from people much younger than me as well as people much older than me. So I think it's about honesty and generosity.

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

Sophistication demands honesty; it does not require ill temper.

We must neither behave as children by resisting honesty, nor allow ourselves to be treated as children by having honesty withheld.

Maturity is when you're able to say, 'It's not just them. It's me.

I'm thirty," I said. "I'm five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor

I figure people drift toward liberalism at a young age, and I always hope that they change when they see how the world really is.