Maturity Quotes - Page 23

• Children who have proven themselves to be incorrigible by the age of twelve should be quickly and quietly beheaded, lest they grow to maturity, marry, and perpetuate the likeness of their being.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Children, Age, Twelve

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• My name is very important to me. I'm representing the Wade name. I've got the name on the back of my jersey when I play. I walk around with that name. That's my family name, the name my son will grow up with. So it's very important to me to keep the level of maturity that I have.

  Dwyane Wade

  Growing Up, Son, Play

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• There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Three, Youth, Looking Good

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• The marvelous maturity of London! I would rather be dead in this town than preening my feathers in heaven.

  Nicholas Monsarrat

  Heaven, London, Towns

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• When you've been in the business 5-years, as a person, it's like you're 5-years old - like a child. 10-years and you're 10-years old, 20... Etcetera. That's how I measure maturity in this industry.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Children, Years, Etcetera

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We love to see any redness in the vegetation of the temperate zone. It is the color of colors. This plant speaks to our blood....What a perfect maturity it arrives at! It is the emblem of a successful life concluded by a death not premature, which is an ornament to Nature. What if we were to mature as perfectly, root and branch, glowing in the midst of our decay, like the poke!

  Henry David Thoreau

  Successful, Roots, Glowing

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• Traumatic events always happen exactly two years before I reach the maturity level to deal with them.

  Tim Sandlin

  Years, Two, Events

  Tim Sandlin (2010). “Social Blunders: A Novel”, p.5, Sourcebooks, Inc.

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• Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Spiritual, Comfortable, Unpredictability

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• Genius may anticipate the season of maturity; but in the education of a people, as in that of an individual, memory must be exercised, before the powers of reason and fancy can be expanded: nor may the artist hope to equal or surpass, till he has learned to imitate, the works of his predecessors.

  Edward Gibbon

  Memories, Artist, People

  Edward Gibbon (1826). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.275

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• If broken lives and souls are to be healed, it must begin with teaching the practice of the presence... To abide in the presence of the Lord is to begin to hear Him. To follow through on that hearing is to find healing, self-acceptance, and growth into psychological and spiritual balance and maturity.

  Leanne Payne

  Spiritual, Teaching, Healing

  Leanne Payne (1999). “Listening Prayer: Learning to Hear God's Voice and Keep a Prayer Journal”, p.131, Baker Books

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• The deep of your maturity determines the height of your marriage.

  Matthew Ashimolowo

  Height, Determine

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• My father was a teacher, my mama was a community worker, I taught in so many schools. So when you get that experience of how to communicate with younger people, put that hand on them and give them that old-school feeling, the maturity and adult, a lot of our kids just need the feeling of that love, and that's the frame of reference that I teach from and that's the frame of reference that all of our musicians in the Jazz at Lincoln Center.

  Wynton Marsalis

  Teacher, Father, Kids

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Physical maturity is bound to time. Spiritual maturity is bound to obedience.

  John Bevere

  Spiritual, Obedience, Bounds

  Twitter post from Aug 17, 2016

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• The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, with whatever compromises that might entail.

  Paul Murray

  Acceptance, Achievement, Realization

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• Our focus reflects our love and admiration for you. . . . We want you to live lives of spiritual maturity and fulfillment, free of unrealistic comparisons.

  Elaine L. Jack

  Life, Spiritual, Focus

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• I see before me the statue of a celebrated minister, who said that confidence was a plant of slow growth. But I believe, however gradual may be the growth of confidence, that of credit requires still more time to arrive at maturity.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Time, Believe, Growth

  Benjamin Disraeli (Earl of Beaconsfield) (1886). “Wit and Wisdom of Benjamin Disraeli, Earl of Beaconsfield: Collected from His Writings and Speeches”

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• That could be applied to whatever you feel. Maybe anger is your thing. You just go out of control and you see red, and the next thing you know you're yelling or throwing something or hitting someone. At that time, begin to accept the fact that that's "enraged buddha." If you feel jealous, that's "jealous buddha." If you have indigestion, that's "buddha with heartburn." If you're happy, "happy buddha"; if bored, "bored buddha." In other words, anything that you can experience or think is worthy of compassion; anything you could think or feel is worthy of appreciation.

  Pema Chodron

  Appreciation, Jealous, Thinking

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• The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one

  Wilhelm Stekel

  Inspirational, Men, Immature

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• Women do not find it difficult nowadays to behave like men, but they often find it extremely difficult to behave like gentlemen

  Compton Mackenzie

  Women, Gentleman, Difficult

  Literature in My Time (1933) ch. 22

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• A woman should be an illusion

  Ian Fleming

  Women, Illusion, Should

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• Once established, an original river advances through its long life, manifesting certain peculiarities of youth, maturity and old age, by which its successive stages of growth may be recognized without much difficulty.

  William Morris Davis

  Rivers, Long, Growth

  William Morris Davis, Douglas Wilson Johnson (1909). “Geographical Essays”

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• The First Amendment makes confidence in the common sense of our people and in the maturity of their judgement the great postulate of our democracy.

  William O. Douglas

  People, Common Sense, Judgement

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• One might equate growing up with a mistrust of words. A mature person trusts his eyes more than his ears. Irrationality often manifests itself in upholding the word against the evidence of the eyes. Children, savages and true believers remember far less what they have seen than what they have heard.

  Eric Hoffer

  Children, Growing Up, Eye

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• What sort of tree is there which will not, if neglected, grow crooked and unfruitful; what but Will, if rightly ordered, prove productive and bring its fruit to maturity? What strength of body is there which will not lose its vigor and fall to decay by laziness, nice usage, and debauchery?

  Plutarch

  Nice, Fall, Tree

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• Your lordship, though not clean past your youth, have yet some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltiness of time.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Past, Age

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