Maturity Quotes - Page 20

• I'm 18 in this album. I'm not losing fans, and I'm not disrepecting women, but you reach the maturity of taking it to the next level with a girl. It was only necessary for me to have at least one song like that.

  Chris Brown

  Girl, Song, Fans

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• Boys will be boys, and so will a lot of middle-aged men.

  Kin Hubbard

  Humorous, Boys, Men

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• The possibility of a scientific treatment of history means a wider experience, a greater maturity of practical reason, and finally a fuller realization of certain basic ideas regarding the nature of life and time.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Mean, Ideas, Realization

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.

  Samuel Johnson

  Nature, Women, Law

  Letter to John Taylor, 18 Aug. 1763

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• Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

  Alicia Keys

  Liberation

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• Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.

  Jack Kornfield

  Spiritual, Emotional, Trying

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• Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Air, Dancer, Certain

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• One hard day of work proves you have heart. But day after day is what proves you have maturity and commitment.

  Dwayne Johnson

  Heart, Commitment, Prove

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• Maturity in the Christian life is measured by only one test: how much closer to his character have we become?

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Christian, Character, Tests

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• One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

  Mark Batterson

  Spiritual, Tests, Miraculous

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• There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

  Max Lucado

  Differences, Excellence, Quests

  Max Lucado (2015). “Let the Journey Begin: Finding God's Best for Your Life”, p.77, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Modesty is the graceful, calm virtue of maturity; bashfulness the charm of vivacious youth.

  Mary Wollstonecraft

  Vivacious, Modesty, Calm

  Mary Wollstonecraft, Janet Todd (1999). “A Vindication of the Rights of Men; A Vindication of the Rights of Woman; An Historical and Moral View of the French Revolution”, p.200, Oxford Paperbacks

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• Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

  Dave Ramsey

  Delay, Pleasure, Results

  Dave Ramsey (2009). “The Total Money Makeover: A Proven Plan for Financial Fitness”, p.17, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The only sure way to maturity is through pain.

  Steve Saint

  Pain, Way

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• It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Men, Phrases, Youth

  Witold Gombrowicz (2012). “Ferdydurke”, p.68, Yale University Press

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• Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

  Andy Stanley

  Spiritual, Perfect, Behavior

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• When emotions dominate, maturity and wisdom deteriorate

  Dennis Prager

  Emotion

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• Growing maturity is marked by the increasing liberties we take with our travelling... we made the discovery (some people never make it) that real books can be taken on a journey and that hours of golden reading can so be added to its other delights.

  C. S. Lewis

  Real, Book, Taken

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• God made sun and moon to distinguish the seasons, and day and night; and we cannot have the fruits of the earth but in their seasons. But God hath made no decrees to distinguish the seasons of His mercies. In Paradise the fruits were ripe the first minute, and in heaven it is always autumn. His mercies are ever in their maturity.

  John Donne

  God, Autumn, Moon

  John Donne (1963). “John Donne's Sermons on the Psalms and Gospels: With a Selection of Prayers and Meditations”, p.182, Univ of California Press

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• Remember, attraction is only one part of a relationship. Loyalty, commitment, responsibility and maturity make up the rest.

  Ruth Westheimer

  Loyalty, Commitment, Responsibility

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• The sea remains the greatest wilderness. To my mind, voyaging through wildernesses, be they full of woods or waves, is essential to the growth and maturity of the human spirit.

  Steven Callahan

  Sea, Growth, Mind

  Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.252, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I have never been a fan of bond funds. Unlike a direct investment in an individual bond that you can hold to maturity and be assured you will get your principal back (assuming no default), a fund has no finite maturity date and most funds are actively traded.

  Suze Orman

  Fans, Assuming, Investment

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• ...God will be 'all in all' (I Cor. 15:28) when we are no longer what we are now, a multiplicity of impulses and emotions, with little or nothing of God in us, but are fully like God , with room for God and God alone. This is the 'maturity' (cf. Col. 1:28) towards which we speed.

  Gregory of Nazianzus

  Christian, Cfs, Littles

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• If you walk through life with ease and without any sense of entanglement, that is maturity.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Life, Spiritual, Truth

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• When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.

  Victoria Principal

  Feet, Sides, Mature

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