Best Maturity Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It is so many years before one can believe enough in what one feels even to know what the feeling is”

“Maturity is when you are able to understand the feelings of others, and treat them with a higher consciousness.”

“Success or failure doesn't choose you, it is you who chooses them. And whatever you choose, along with it you try to learn or unlearn a method to do something.”

“To the immature, other people are not real.”

“The red firelight glowed on their two bonny heads and revealed their faces, animated with the eager interest of children; for, though he was twenty-three and she eighteen, each had so much of novelty to feel, and learn, that neither experienced nor evinced the sentiments of sober disenchanted maturity.”

“Kindness and helping others are good things. The world does not move forward without people who care, support, and step in when someone needs help. We all value kindness and speak highly of it. Yet when we ask for help ourselves and hear a refusal, disappointment often follows. Not always because the help was critical, but because we expected a ‘yes’.”

“I should say that there is such a thing as arrested development in human things (and a very bad thing it is) when people refuse to think for themselves and look around for some human authority to tell them what to think. Such people are afraid of the responsibilities of growing up. They want to remain children for ever - like the loathsome Peter Pan. What is wrong with such people is that when they have an opportunity of thinking for themselves they refuse it and cling to their faith. They are offered a higher and more mature way of knowing, but they won't have it.”

“The degree of your free spirit and happiness is directly proportional to your ability to forgive and forget.”

“It sounded old.”

“Growing up does not necessarily mean to fit into the stereotypes of being an adult.”

“Growing up does not necessarily mean to fit into the stereotypes of being an adult. Because maturity comes from a person's wisdom. To truly grow up means to be the wisest person that you can be. Turns out there are still some adults that need to grow up.”

“Maturity isn’t about having all the answers — it’s about knowing when to listen, when to let go, and when your peace matters more than being right.”

“Wisdom doesn’t come from years alone, but from what you’ve dared to face and chosen to learn. Experience is the ink — your life is the lesson.”

“Maturity is when you are able to recognize the immaturity of others and accept them as they are; Sometimes people are not mature enough to grasp your perspective, but with the passage of time, they eventually come to you.”

“Being a reader has brought me much joy, laughter, and rich experience. But reading has also wounded me. The sacrament of reading has plowed me open and sown seeds of empathy that have taken root in deep soil. Over the years, reading has caused me to grow from a shallow, self-absorbed youth to one who seeks out the pain of the world. Reading has burdened me with the welfare of my fellow human, but sometimes the burden proves too heavy for my narrow shoulders.”

“With age comes acumen. With experience comes insight.”

“Better be a happy insincere than a troubled righteous, who complains about the unjust world all the time.”

“I will come back to you, I swear I will;”

“You are never too old to become younger!”

“As a writer of philosophy, it's good to ask oneself, 'Will I still believe this a week from now, or months, or even years?”

“You have to be able to recognize your truths in the daylight before you can find them in the dark.”

“Whatever can be threatened, whatever can be shaken, whatever you fear cannot stand, is destined to crash. Do not go down with the ship. Let that which is destined to become the past slip away. Believe that the real you is that which beckons from the future. If it is a sadder you, it will be a wiser one. And dawn will follow the darkness sooner or later. Rebirth can never come without death.”

“The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.”

“The greater the gap between self perception and reality, the more aggression is unleashed on those who point out the discrepancy.”

“Men must endure”

“If you happen to be white in a white country; pretty according to the dictates of fashion; rich in a country where money is adored, it’s almost impossible to grow up and to grow up honest inside. It is almost impossible. Most people don’t grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging. But to grow up, to take responsibility for the time you take up, and the space you occupy, to honor every living person for his or her humanity, that is to grow up.”

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.”

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

“There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.”

“The promise of a dreamer’s future will always remain greater than their present ability. God will always give them dreams that are further along than their current level of maturity.”

“God is not a God of confusion, although at times one's judgment, for a period, may become clouded in the mi(d)st of one's growth process. I stopped fooling myself into thinking that Christ is always for the cool kids and never for those upright and uptight religious people everybody hates.”

“When you mature in your relationship with God you realize how suffering and patience are like eating your spiritual vegetables.”

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal.”