Maturity Quotes and Sayings

One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us
- Virgil A. Kraft

The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
- Douglas Engelbart

Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it’s finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.
- Abigail Van Buren

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
- William Arthur Ward

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
- John MacNaughton

To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
- Fritz Kunkel

Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you’d have the time of your life.

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.
- Joshua Loth Liebman

To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
- Henri Bergson

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
- Jim Rohn

Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
- John Finley

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
- Brigitte Bardot

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
- Joshua Loth Liebman

Maturity begins when we’re content to feel we’re right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
- Sydney J. Harris

Maturity is knowing when to be immature.
- Randall Hall

When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.
- Madeleine L’Engle

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
- Brian Tracy

Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.
- Samuel Ullman

There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.

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

We have not passed that subtle line between childhood and adulthood until we move from the passive voice to the active voice–that is, until we have stopped saying “It got lost,” and say, “I lost it.”
- Sydney J. Harris