Maturity Quotes

To grow mature is to separate more distinc­tly, to connect more closely.

Birthdays are the advancement of your vintage--which of course has no correlation to advancement of aging, wisdom, foreheads, bald spots, maturity, wrinkles, belt loops, denials--well maybe denials.

I believe that maturity is not an outgrowing, but a growing up: that an adult is not a dead child, but a child who survived.

This day I completed my thirty first year…I reflected that I had as yet done but little, very little indeed, to further the happiness of the human race, or to advance the information of the succeeding generation. I viewed with regret the many hours I have spent in indolence, and now soarly feel the want of that information which those hours would have given me had they been judiciously expended.

An important sign of maturity is becoming secure with your insecurities.

It is the stupidest children who are the most childish and the stupidest grown-ups who are the most grown-up.

We never really grow up - we only learn how to behave in public.