Maturity Quotes - Page 24

• Journeys at youth are part of the education; but at maturity, are part of the experience.

  Francis Bacon

  Spiritual, Journey, Youth

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• Brigands will demand your money or your life, but a woman will demand both

  Samuel Butler

  Demand, Women Bashing

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• Wisdom does not depend on mind and memory but on the maturity, purity and perfection of the individual personality. ... Therefore, insights are not passed on through the mind, but - and this particularly - through intuition or inspiration. The degree of wisdom is therefore determined by the state of development of the individual.

  Franz Bardon

  Memories, Inspiration, Perfection

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• Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.

  J. I. Packer

  Struggle, Luxury, Hardship

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• A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Memories, Regret, Grief

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• I find no change of consequence in grown people, I do not miss the dead. It does not surprise me to hear that this friend or that friend died at such and such a time, because I fully expected that sort of news. But somehow I had made no calculation on the infants. It never occurred to me that infants grow up...These unexpected changes, from infancy to youth, and from youth to maturity, are by far the most startling things I meet with.

  Mark Twain

  Growing Up, People, Missing

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• In spiritual maturity, the opposite of injustice is not justice but compassion.

  Joko Beck

  Spiritual, Compassion, Opposites

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• In positive terms, we can state that psychological maturity entails finding greater satisfaction in giving than in receiving; having a capacity to form satisfying and permanent loyalties; being primarily a creative, contributing person; having learned to profit from experience; having a freedom from fear (anxiety) with a resulting true serenity and not a pseudo absence of tension; and accepting and making the most of unchangeable reality when it confronts one.

  William C. Menninger

  Loyalty, Fear, Reality

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• With girls, friendships are hard because you have to learn to get to a maturity level to love them but not want to be them.

  Nikki Reed

  Girl, Levels, Want

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• As we grow older, the memories of early life brighten, those of maturity and senescence grow dim and confused.

  Anthony Burgess

  Memories, Confused, Grows

  Anthony Burgess (1990). “You've had your time: being the second part of the confessions of Anthony Burgess”, Heinemann Educational Books

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• Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.

  Abel Hermant

  Spiritual, Heroism, Doe

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• I still want to play music but I don't want to look like Donald Duck while I'm doing it.

  Elton John

  Play, Ducks, Looks

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• Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

  William O. Douglas

  Acceptance, Government, Journalism

  William O. Douglas (1954). “An Almanac of Liberty”

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• I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

  Giancarlo Esposito

  Attitude, Black And White, Thinking

  "Giancarlo Esposito talks ‘Breaking Bad,’ ‘Revolution’ and Emmys". Interview with Alan Sepinwall, uproxx.com. July 31, 2012.

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• On the neck of the young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise. Youth condemns; maturity condones.

  Amy Lowell

  Men, Necks, Sparkle

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• I'm almost 50, so I obviously don't have the same body that I had when I was 20. But I also don't have the same mindset either, when I was wracked with self-consciousness and insecurity. Now I really appreciate my maturity as a woman, my depth of spirit and soul and my understanding of who I am and what's important to me.

  Elle Macpherson

  Self, Who I Am, Appreciate

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• When a person becomes a Christian, he doesn’t just join a local church because it’s a good habit for growing in spiritual maturity. He joins a local church because it’s the expression of what Christ has made him—a member of the body of Christ.

  Mark Dever

  Christian, Spiritual, Expression

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• When we cling, often forever, to our old patterns of thinking and behaving, we fall to negotiate any crisis, to truly grow up, and to experience the joyful sense of rebirth that accompanies the successful transition into greater maturity.

  M. Scott Peck

  Growing Up, Fall, Successful

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• India is a democracy; it is in our DNA. As far as the different political parties are concerned, I firmly believe that they have the maturity and wisdom to make decisions that are in the best interests of the nation.

  Narendra Modi

  Party, Believe, Dna

  "Exclusive Interview With Narendra Modi: 'We Are Natural Allies'". Interview with Nancy Gibbs, Zoher Abdoolcarim and Nikhil Kumar, time.com. May 07, 2015.

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• Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

  Paul Watzlawick

  Parent, Ability

  "This column will change your life: Is it really a case of innovate and die?" by Oliver Burkeman, www.theguardian.com. July 2, 2010.

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• It does require maturity to realize that models are to be used, but not to be believed.

  Henri Theil

  Faith, Doe, Belief

  Henri Theil (1971). “Principles of Econometrics”, John Wiley & Sons Inc

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• When you make a bad pitch and the hitter puts it out of the park and you cost your team the game, it's a real test of your maturity to be able to stand in front of your locker fifteen minutes later and admit it to the world. How many people in other professions would be willing to have their job performances evaluated that way, in front of millions, every afternoon at five o'clock.

  Bob Feller

  Jobs, Real, Team

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• A large proportion of mankind, like pigeons and partridges, on reaching maturity, having passed through a period of playfulness or promiscuity, establish what they hope and expect will be a permanent and fertile mating relationship. This we call marriage.

  C. D. Darlington

  Bird, Pigeons, Reaching

  Genetics and Man Ch. 16

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• Just from being with my grandmother, my maturity escalated. And now I'm in tune to the needs of people. It was a large responsibility, taking care of a human being.

  Steve Garvey

  Responsibility, Grandmother, People

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• I think what's happening for me, it's fun to see other things besides Facebook and Twitter take hold. The maturity of Tumblr as a real player is exciting. I think Pinterest has proved to be a major player. It's fun to see Instagram become a major player. It's fun to watch things like SnapChat, and Vine, try to vie to be the next thing.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Fun, Real, Thinking

  "Gary Vaynerchuk On Social Media Trends, Time Management, Online & Real-Life Balance (Q&A)". Interview with Craig Kanalley, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 1, 2013.

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