Maturity Sayings and Quotes

Maturity is synonymous with being an adult. We take care of our responsibilities and try to be productive citizens. While it’s not always fun, it’s a necessary part of life. Below you’ll find a collection of wise and humorous quotes about maturity.

Maturity is that time when the mirrors in our mind turn to windows and instead of seeing the reflection of ourselves we see others. unknown
Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. Joshua Loth Liebman
Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. Tom Stoppard
Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. Joshua Loth Liebman
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
Maturity is knowing when to be immature. Randall Hall
Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well. Jim Rohn
Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself. John MacNaughton
Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. John Huston Finley
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
Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself. Marianne Williamson
To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. William Arthur Ward
I believe the sign of maturity is accepting deferred gratification. Peggy Cahn
Maturity consists in no longer being taken in by oneself. Kajetan Von Schlaggenberg
Maturity starts with the willingness to give oneself. Elisabeth Elliot
I guess real maturity, which most of us never achieve, is when you realize that you're not the center of the universe. Katherine Paterson
Age is just a number. Maturity is a choice. Harry Styles
Maturity is not when we start speaking big things. It is when we start understanding small things.. unknown
A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play. Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
Age is no guarantee of maturity. Lawana Blackwell
Maturity comes not with age but with the acceptance of responsibility. You are only young once but immaturity can last a lifetime! Edwin Louis Cole
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. Thomas A. Edison
Maturity, one discovers, has everything to do with the acceptance of not knowing. Mark Z. Danielewski
Maturity is when your world opens up and you realize that you are not the center of it. M.J. Croan
Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others. Hermann Hesse
Maturity is the moment one regains one's innocence. Marty Rubin
Maturity is so often considered to be synonymous with 'adult. But I truly feel that maturity may be defined by the ability to be both an adult and a child. Gina Marinello
Maturity is only a short break in adolescence. Jules Feiffer
Youth condemns; maturity condones. Amy Lowell
Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years. Martha Graham