Quotes with maturity

  • 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.
  • A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
  • I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
  • Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
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  • Albert Einstein I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Lawana Blackwell Age is no guarantee of maturity.
    Lawana Blackwell
    English writer
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  • George Bernard Shaw A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Robertson Davies A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
    Robertson Davies
    Canadian novelist and journalist (1913 - 1995)
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  • Helen Rowland A widow is a fascinating being with the flavor of maturity, the spice of experience, the piquancy of novelty, the tang of practiced coquetry, and the halo of one man's approval.
    Helen Rowland
    American journalist (1875 - 1950)
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  • Tom Stoppard Age is a high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • Abel Hermant Heroism does not require spiritual maturity.
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  • Anthony Doerr I guess whatever maturity is there may be there because I've been keeping a journal forever. In high school my friends would make fun of me - you're doing your man diary again. So I was always trying to translate experience into words.
    Anthony Doerr
    American author (1973 - )
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  • Tom Stoppard I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.
    Tom Stoppard
    Czech Playwright (1937 - )
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  • John MacNaughton Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
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  • Jim Rohn Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Dag Hammarskjöld Maturity: among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
    Dag Hammarskjöld
    Swedish diplomat (1905 - 1961)
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  • Ann Landers Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised.
    Ann Landers
    American columnist (1918 - 2002)
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  • Jane Austen Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity.
    Jane Austen
    English writer (1775 - 1817)
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  • Max L. Lucado 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.
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  • William Arthur Ward To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
    William Arthur Ward
    American writer and poet (1921 - 1994)
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  • Larry Mcmurtry True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends - and he accepts it.
    Larry Mcmurtry
    American novelist, essayist, bookseller, and screenwriter (1936 - )
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  • Benedict Cumberbatch When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.
    Benedict Cumberbatch
    English actor (1976 - )
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  • Carlos Slim You want to have a toy and another toy, and that's not maturity. The biggest things in life are not materials.
    Carlos Slim
    Mexican business magnate, investor and philanthropist (1940 - )
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