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Maturity Quotes

Adulthood is also called sexual maturity. It is the time when the individual reaches reproductive age or puberty. This is when secondary sexual characters start developing in both males and females. Hence, physical maturity is reached around the age of 13. Coming to psychological terms of maturity, it occurs when an individual responds to circumstances in an appropriate manner. Again, it is very subjective and there is no specific age to attain this! To get a good insight on what your peers think of adulthood and maturity, read on!

Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Marlon Brando

Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

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Thomas Hobbes

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Theodore Roosevelt

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Thomas Jefferson

A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit.

Malcolm X

Be peaceful, be courteous, obey the law, respect everyone; but if someone puts his hand on you, send him to the cemetery.

Thomas Hobbes

In the state of nature profit is the measure of right.

Alicia Keys

Maturity and experience are part of my liberation.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy they are, who already possess it.

Theodore Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Patrick Jake O'Rourke

You know your children are growing up when they stop asking you where they came from and refuse to tell you where they're going.

Tom Stoppard

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Thomas Jefferson

I think with the Romans, that the general of today should be a soldier tomorrow if necessary.

Malcolm X

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

Tom Stoppard

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.

Nicole Scherzinger

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself.

Angelina Jolie

I do believe in the old saying, 'What does not kill you makes you stronger.' Our experiences, good and bad, make us who we are. By overcoming difficulties, we gain strength and maturity.

Malcolm X

Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Salvador Dali

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Thomas Paine

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Robert Sheehan

Who doesn't change through their 20s? I changed probably more than the average person who lives in one place and has a job. But everybody changes significantly in maturity, we'd like to think, from 20 to 30.

Thomas Hobbes

The right of nature... is the liberty each man hath to use his own power, as he will himself, for the preservation of his own nature; that is to say, of his own life.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Give fools their gold, and knaves their power; let fortune's bubbles rise and fall; who sows a field, or trains a flower, or plants a tree, is more than all.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad example.

William Arthur Ward

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

Theodore Roosevelt

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

Benedict Cumberbatch

When you're a kid, 'Star Trek' is a slower burn. It's funny, it's entertaining, but it also has a maturity about it - which is its universal appeal, I think.

Tom Stoppard

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Rob Lowe

I think part of maturity is knowing who you are.

Giancarlo Esposito

I don't think anyone is black and white and I think we change our minds and our attitudes about certain things as we grow to our maturity.

Liam Neeson

There seems to be more opportunities for old guys like me to do a little fighting and running because the lead characters also require a bit of depth and maturity and gravitas that one is likely to acquire doing drama all those years.

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Albert Einstein

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

I'll always thank all of the teams I played for from the bottom of my heart because they all helped me grow as a person and a footballer, but the three years I spent in Naples were fantastic. That city gave me everything - my name, maturity, and international recognition. I get very emotional when Naples is mentioned.

Zig Ziglar

Problem-solving becomes a very important part of our makeup as we grow into maturity or move up the corporate ladder.

Michelle Obama

I've come to admire our military kids more than you all will know, because you guys are heroes. And the only way your parents are able to serve is because you guys hold it down, and you do it with maturity beyond your years.