Maturity Quotes - Page 11

• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of childhood into maturity.

  Thomas Huxley

  Life, Success, Children

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• If you're telling me I'm not mature, that's one thing I don't cry over since as far as I can make out it's the same thing as being dead.

  John Updike

  Cry, Mature, Make Out

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit, Run”, p.112, Random House

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• The arts are not simply skills: their concern is the intellectual, ethical, and spiritual maturity of human life. And in a time when religious and political institutions are so busy engraving images of marketable gods and candidates that they lose their vision of human dignity, the arts have become the custodians of those values which most worthily difine humanity, which most sensitively define Divinity.

  Robert Shaw

  Spiritual, Religious, Art

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• The fertility cycle is a cycle entirely of living creatures passing again and again through birth, growth, maturity, death, and decay.

  Wendell Berry

  Growth, Decay, Fertility

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• A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Patient, Individual, Hallmark

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• Becoming mature Christians will require the sovereign work of God. Only God can save and sanctify. Still, God uses men and means. Certainly we as parents must seek to bring our children to Jesus Christ for salvation. But salvation is not the end of the journey. It is only the beginning. The destination toward which we are headed with our children is nothing less than maturity in Christ.

  Wayne Mack

  Christian, Jesus, Children

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• Imagine a wall that's green on one side and red on the other. You stand on one side and only see green. I stand on the other side and only see red. We'll both be right about the color we see, even though we disagree on what color the wall is. Being able to realize that the other person has a valid point, even if you disagree with it, that's maturity.

  Oliver Gaspirtz

  Wall, Color, Green

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• Caring - about people, about things, about life - is an act of maturity.

  Tracy McMillan

  Caring, People, Life Is

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• It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

  Quintilian

  Genius, Happens, Premature

  Quintilian (1805). “Quinctilian's Institutes of Eloquence: Or, The Art of Speaking in Public, in Every Character and Capacity”, p.26

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• Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

  Rajneesh

  Home, Space, Practice

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• The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Believe, Stories, Ribald

  Ezra Taft Benson (1988). “The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson”, Bookcraft Pubs

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• One time I didn't leave my hotel room for four days, I was so stuck in my head. But now, with maturity and age, I've realized that winning isn't everything. It's very much about the journey, particularly in my sport. There are so many people on my team, and I've got to be conscious of them. So while winning is definitely the ultimate goal, the lessons learned when I don't win only strengthen me.

  Lewis Hamilton

  Sports, Team, Winning

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Spiritual maturity is measured not by the sophistication of a person's opinions, but by their genuineness and the courage necessary to express and maintain them.

  Caroline Myss

  Spiritual, Opinion, Sophistication

  Caroline Myss (2013). “Anatomy of the Spirit: The Seven Stages of Power and Healing”, p.188, Harmony

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• If we recover something like a functioning, well-informed democratic polity - if it hasn't been wrecked for good by the people who are getting in now, if millennials and teenagers can come to maturity in a world where we hold free and fair elections and agree on what fact is - Lin-Manuel Miranda is going to have a lot to do with that.

  Stephen Burt

  Teenager, People, World

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Do not fear death, but welcome it, since it too comes from nature. For just as we are young and grow old, and flourish and reach maturity, have teeth and a beard and grey hairs, conceive, become pregnant, and bring forth new life, and all the other natural processes that follow the seasons of our existence, so also do we have death. A thoughtful person will never take death lightly, impatiently, or scornfully, but will wait for it as one of life's natural processes.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Death, Thoughtful, Hair

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• As a fortysomething actor, you reach a plateau of maturity from which you can really get stuck in.

  Julian Sands

  Actors, Stuck, Plateaus

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

  Chad Urmston

  Appreciation, Acceptance, Thinking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• 'Content' is a word that has never sat well with me. Like 'maturity'. They are two words I've never liked. I think they imply some sort of decay. A settling.

  Elvis Costello

  Thinking, Two, Decay

  "Elvis Costello: 'I've never liked the word maturity. It implies decay'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. October 16, 2010.

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• It requires twenty years for a man to rise from the vegetable state in which he is within his mother's womb, and from the pure animal state which is the lot of his early childhood, to the state when the maturity of reason begins to appear. It has required thirty centuries to learn a little about his structure. It would need eternity to learn something about his soul. It takes an instant to kill him.

  Voltaire

  Mother, Men, Animal

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.108, Penguin

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• Anything is possible in the life of a man if he lives long enough. Even maturity.

  Howell Raines

  Men, Long, Enough

  Howell Raines (1994). “Fly Fishing Through the Midlife Crisis”, Anchor

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• We are coming to the times when passive Christianity and passive Christians will cease to exist. There is a maturity, a discipline and a divine militancy coming upon the people of God. Those who have succumbed to humanistic and idealistic theologies may have a hard time with this, but we must understand that God is a military God. The title that he uses ten times more than any other is "the Lord of Hosts", or "Lord of armies". There is a martial aspect to his character that we must understand and embrace for the times and the job to which we are now coming.

  Rick Joyner

  Christian, Jobs, Military

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• ...for the contingent out there who sneer at heroes like Superman and Wonder Woman and Captain America, those icons who still, at their core, represent selfless sacrifice for the greater good, and who justify their contempt by saying, oh, it's so unrealistic, no one would ever be so noble... grow up. Seriously. Cynicism is not maturity, do not mistake the one for the other. If you truly cannot accept a story where someone does the right thing because it's the right thing to do, that says far more about who you are than these characters.

  Greg Rucka

  Growing Up, Mistake, Hero

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• True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

  Larry McMurtry

  Girlfriend, Father, Men

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• The process of maturing is an art to be learned, an effort to be sustained. By the age of fifty you have made yourself what you are, and if it is good, it is better than your youth.

  Marya Mannes

  Art, Effort, Age

  Marya Mannes (1958). “More in Anger”

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• If a child shows himself incorrigible, he should be decently and quietly beheaded at the age of twelve, lest he grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate his kind.

  Don Marquis

  Death, Children, Dying

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