Maturity Quotes

"Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up."

Joseph Barth

"The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own."

Albert Ellis

“Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.”

“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.”

“Maturity is the ability to control anger and settle differences without violence or destruction.”

“Maturity is patience. It is the willingness to postpone immediate pleasure in favour of the long-term gain.”

“Maturity is perseverance, the ability to sweat out a project or a situation in spite of heavy opposition and discouraging setbacks.”

“Maturity is the capacity to face unpleasantness and frustration, discomfort and defeat, without complaint or collapse.”

“Maturity is humility. It is being big enough to say, "I was wrong."

“Maturity is the ability to make a decision and stand by it.”

“Maturity means dependability, keeping one's word, coming through in a crisis.”

“Maturity is the art of living in peace with that which we cannot change, the courage to change that which should be changed, no matter what it takes, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

"Immature love says: 'I love you because I need you.' Mature love says 'I need you because I love you.'"

Erich Fromm

"You grow up the day you have your first real laugh at yourself."

Ethel Barrymore

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. The ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”

Calvin Coolidge

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”

Tom Stoppard

“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”

Albert Einstein