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Maturity Quotes


"The day the child realizes that all adults are imperfect, he becomes an adolescent; the day he forgives them, he becomes an adult; the day he forgives himself, he becomes wise."


"It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool."


"The American male doesn't mature until he has exhausted all other possibilities."


"Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself, whatsoever the cost."


"Be yourself. Never try to be someone else, and you will become mature. Maturity is accepting the responsibility of being oneself."


"God entrusts His riches to mature sons and not to spiritual babies."


"Soon the child learns that there are strangers, and ceases to be a child."


"Spiritual maturity testifies of one's level of patience."


"A child becomes an adult when he realizes that he has a right not only to be right but also to be wrong."


"Delayed gratification is what makes a man."
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