Quotes about Maturity

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

I know not how to aid you, save in the assurance of one of mature age, and much severe experience, that you can not fail, if you resolutely determine, that you will not.

Too big to cry too young to laugh...

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

A healthy person can accept criticism.

Maturity: knowing where you're crazy, trying to warn others of the fact and striving to keep yourself under control.

Only as we mature does affection begin to depend on achievement.

Has the community served to make individuals free, strong, and mature, or has it made them insecure and dependent? Has it taken them by the hand for a while so that they would learn again to walk by themselves, or has it made them anxious and unsure?

If you do something long enough, you uncover life lessons along the way.

The first half of life is learning to be an adult-the second half is learning to be a child.

No experience is wasted. Everything in life is happening to grow you up, to fill you up, to help you become more of who you were created to be.

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