Act your age not your shoe size.
Growing old is mandatory but growing up is optional.
Being nice to people you don’t like is not being two faced, it is called growing up.
Maturity is not by age, but the acceptance of your responsibilities.
Being strong doesn’t mean you have to stay and fight all the battles and petty arguments that come your way. Being strong means you don’t have to stay and respond to rude remarks. Don’t retort by throwing insults back at them. It’s what they want. Keep your dignity and don’t lower yourself to their level. True strength is being adult enough to walk away from the nonsense with your head held high.
Admitting our mistakes is a sign of maturity and wisdom. We learn more from knowing our mistakes.
– Dr T.P.Chia
Pain is what forces us to grow.
Being friends with your ex shows you two are mature enough to get over the fact that you weren’t meant to be together.
Work on yourself first, take responsibility for your own progress.
– I Ching
Grades don’t measures intelligence.
And age doesn’t define maturity.
If you are looking to blame someone for the problems in your life, you don’t have to look any further than in the mirror.
Boys come and go, but a man will stay. It takes wisdom to distinguish that man from a crowd of boys.
Every time you feel like doing the wrong thing but choose to do the right thing, you are growing!
We’re all mature until somebody brings out the bubble-wrap.
Immature people always want to win arguments even at the cost of a relationship. Mature ones prefer losing an argument just to uphold a golden relationship.
Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.
– Indira Gandhi
Maturity is when you stop making excuses and start making changes.
– Roy Bennett
If people talk behind your back then don’t get angry or depressed just give them 100 more reasons to talk.
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
A real man is going to work things out, a boy will leave when things get hard.
I’m more afraid of growing up than anything else.
Perfect maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation and don’t hurt them back.
Your age doesn’t define your maturity.
Your grades don’t define your intellect.
Rumors don’t define who you are.
Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.
– Brian Tracy
Running away from problems or troubles will make you fall into another problem or trouble.
I’m no one to judge but your drinking, smoking, partying every weekend ain’t going to get you where you want to be in life 10 years from now.
At some point, you’re just going to have to shut up and admit that you’re wrong. It’s not about giving up, it’s about growing up.
Growing up isn’t as fun as I thought it’d be.
‘Maturity’ really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
– Alain de Botton
My levels of maturity changes depending on who I’m with.
Being mature is knowing when to keep quiet.
Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.
When I was younger I thought I knew it all. Now that I’m older and I realize how foolish that was.
Age is no guarantee of maturity.
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.
– Anaïs Nin
Real maturity lies in your words, not on your age.
Maturity means losing innocence.
Experience life in all possible ways – good- bad, bitter- sweet, dark- light, summer- winter. Experience all the dualities. Don’t be afraid of experience, because the more experience you have, the more mature you become.
– Osho
You are not really grown up until you see and understand your weaknesses.
– Dr T.P.Chia
The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.
– Douglas Engelbart
Being nice to someone you dislike doesn’t mean you’re a fake, It means you are mature enough to tolerate your dislike towards them..
It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.
– Brigitte Bardot
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us
– Virgil A. Kraft
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.
– Joshua Loth Liebman
To exist is to change, to change is to mature, to mature is to go on creating oneself endlessly.
– Henri Bergson
Grades don’t measure intelligence and age doesn’t define maturity.
Appreciate what you have, avoid excuses and always keep moving forward. You will definitely achieve something.
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long- term values.
– Joshua Loth Liebman
A petty mind can be never be a great mind.
Maturity is knowing when to be immature.
– Randall Hall
Maturity is having someone hurt you more than you ever imagined, but still loving them and not wanting revenge.
The beauty of growing up is the wisdom that comes with it !
– Connie Ferguson
You may say I’m tall, you may say I’m short, you might say I’m fat, you might say I’m skinny. But whatever you say can’t ever change who I am.
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.
– John MacNaughton
There’s no point in being grown up if you can’t be childish sometimes.
Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings.
– Rick Warren
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
– William Arthur Ward
Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.
– John Finley
Blessed is he who has learned to admire but not envy, to follow but not imitate, to praise but not flatter, and to lead but not manipulate.
– William Arthur Ward
Maturity is the ability to accept the unaccepted in life and make things work within one’s possible means.
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
When sleeping becomes a reward rather than a punishment, you’ve grown up.
Emotional maturity is demonstrated by how kindly you treat those who mistreat or misunderstand you.
To be mature, you don’t have to be older.
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.
It’s time people shut up swallow their pride and admit their mistakes, it’s not giving up it’s growing up.
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
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of “not knowing”.
– Mark Z. Danielewski
Mature minds don’t clutter with trivial thoughts.
To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.
– Fritz Kunkel
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don’t go well.
– Jim Rohn
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
Maturity has nothing to do with many birthdays you celebrated, but more to do with challenges you experienced or came across in life.
I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.
– Margaret Mead
Maturity is gained by a person knowing right from wrong.
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
You can’t prove you’re not a child by engaging in childish behavior.
– Alan Robert Neal
I don’t know the actual meaning of maturity.. But for me maturity is when a person hurts you.. You try to understand his situation instead of hurting him back.
That’s the worst of growing up, and I’m beginning to realize it. The things you wanted so much when you were a child don’t seem half so wonderful to you when you get them.
– L. M. Montgomery
An excuse is what it is. . . . Failure to accept responsibility for one’s own actions.
You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
– Abraham Lincoln
Maturity can never be defined by age.
Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you’d have the time of your life.
A mature person knows where he/she came from, where he/she is and where he/she is going.
I was dumb till I realized I was talking sense to the wrong people.
Maturity is to be is to be responsible for your actions and when anything goes wrong take it like a man.
Physical growth is compulsory mental growth is option. You choose to be responsible or irresponsible.
Some don’t agree, some are against;
Never mind, n respect their attitude.
Because it shows their different outlook not the stupidity.
That’s make me the more analyzing.
Might have been a fool for you once but I won’ be the same fool twice.
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
– Hermann Hesse
What separates men from boys is that they don’t do what is convenient, they do what is required.
– Alex Hormozi
With adulthood comes responsibility.
– Mary Lydon Simonsen
Mark the day when you take complete responsibility for your actions. It will be the day when you have reformed into an adult.
Nowadays maturity can only be found in financial products.
Sometimes life is not about what you want to do but what you ought to do.
– Chetan Bhagat