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Maturity Quotes and Quotations

One trouble with a kind of falsely therapeutic and always reassuring attitude that it is easy to fall into with old people, is the tendency to be satisfied with too little.

- Kenneth Koch

Be content with what you are, and wish not change; not dread your last day, not long for it.

- Martial

Real maturity is the ability to imagine the humanity of every person as fully as you believe in your own humanity.

- Tobias Wolff

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

- Bible

There is nothing noble about being superior to some other men. The true nobility is in being superior to your previous self.

- Hindustani proverb

Growing up is after all only the understanding that one's unique and incredible experience is what everyone shares.

- Doris Lessing

A mark of maturity seems to be the range and extent of one's feeling of self-involvement in abstract ideals.

- Gordon Wallport

The mark of a mature man is the ability to give love and receive it joyously and without guilt.

- Leo Baeck

My poetry doesn't change from place to place - it changes with the years. It's very important to be one's age. You get ideas you have to turn down - 'I'm sorry, no longer'; 'I'm sorry, not yet.'

- W. H. Auden

Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty.

- John Finley

I believe that the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification.

- Peggy Cahn

You don't learn to hold your own by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

Our judgements about things vary according to the time left us to live -that we think is left us to live.

- Andre Gide

Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

- F. Scott Fitzgerald

How many really capable men are children more than once during the day?

- Napoleon Bonaparte

The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.

- Harry A. Overstreet

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowhip with other human beings as we take our place among them.

- Virginia Woolf

It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.

- Samuel Johnson