Maturity Quotes

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

I don't think I was fundamentally different from what I was before I went to jail, except that in jail I had a lot of time to think about problems and to see the mistakes that we had committed. I came out mature.

In my younger days, I was arrogant - jail helped me to get rid of it. I did nothing but make enemies because of my arrogance.

No nation can rise to its full moral maturity so long as it subjects a segment of its citizenry on the basis of race or color.

One of the sure signs of maturity is the ability to rise to the point of self criticism.

Usually youth is for freedom and reform, maturity for judicious compromise, and old age for stability and repose.

Because I'm no longer a pop star 24 hours a day, I'm no longer bogged down by the stupid stuff that used to cripple me. I don't bruise easily any more.

We were a savage little lot, Liverpool kids, not pacifist or vegetarian or anything. But I feel I've gone beyond that, and that it was immature to be so prejudiced and believe in all the stereotypes.

Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.

Minds ripen at very different ages.

There's no such thing in aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

The army teaches boys to think like men.

I feel like I carry myself in a more manly way. I don't carry myself as a boy.

As I began to love myself I stopped craving for a different life, and I could see that everything that surrounded me was inviting me to grow. Today, I call it 'maturity'.

I was a worshipper of the foolhardy and the melodramatic, a dreamer and a moper, raging at life and loving it, a mind in a chrysalis yet erupting with sudden bursts of maturity.

Blame nobody else, do not commit the mistake of the ignorant.

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.

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