Maturity Quotes

“The mature personality is not only capable of withstanding stress but also of seeking it out.”

“Some stuff can be fixed, some stuff can't be. Deciding which is which is part of maturing.”

“I'm not a little girl anymore. I'm a woman. I'm a businesswoman.”

“I feel that for an artist to be going all his life in a state of ferment and revolution is as unseemly as for a man to be in a continual state of adolescence.”

“Maturity is the transition from environmental support to self-support.”

“The single state is a perpetual infancy.”

“If you have a barking dog, you can't just be a barking dog back. You have to be the adult in the room.”

“Silence is the maturation of wisdom.”

“Prizes are for boys. I'm a grown-up.”

“I've had to grow up and be a man. To be a man, you have to kill the boy.”

“When you have a child, you are not a child anymore.”

“A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong.”

“The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That's the day we truly grow up.”

“That's the worst of growing up, and I'm beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don't seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.”

“I think that age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

“The mature person is one who is able to be objective about himself and his own behavior.”

“He had passed from the lowly state of a boy to the priestly station of a man.”

“To be a gentleman is to be a conspirator against the clown in oneself.”

“Opinions, like premature bananas, are green and immature.”

“You gotta be a man to be a man.”