72 Inspirational Quotes About Maturity (SELF-RESPECT)

Top 17 Most Famous Quotes About Maturity (BEST)

“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.”
Angelina Jolie

Maturity is having the courage to use one’s own intelligence. - Immanuel Kant — Maturity is having the **courage** to use one’s own **intelligence**. – **Immanuel Kant**

Maturity is not when we start speaking big things, it is when we start understanding small things.

Maturity is learning to walk away from people and situations that threaten your peace of mind, self-respect, values, and self-worth. — Maturity is **learning** to walk away from people and situations that threaten your **peace** of mind, self-**respect**, values, and self-worth.

Maturity is reached the day we don’t need to be lied to about anything. - Frank Yerby — Maturity is reached the day we don’t need to be lied to about anything. – Frank Yerby

Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. - Jane Austen — Self-knowledge is the first step to maturity. – **Jane Austen**

Maturity is not measured by age. It's an attitude built by experience. — Maturity is not measured by age. It’s an **attitude** built by experience.

Maturity is the ability to think, speak, and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. - Samuel Ullman — Maturity is the **ability** to think, speak, and act your feelings within the bounds of **dignity**. – Samuel Ullman

Maturity is learning to gracefully accept the things you cannot change and courageously change the things you can. — Maturity is **learning** to gracefully accept the things you cannot **change** and **courageously** change the things you can.

“Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.”
Calvin Coolidge

Maturity is not when you start speaking, it's when you start understanding silence. — Maturity is not when you start speaking, it’s when you start understanding silence.

Not caring about winning trivial arguments saves so much time and energy. - James Clear — Not caring about **winning** trivial arguments saves so much time and energy. – **James Clear**

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. - Albert Einstein — I live in that **solitude** which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. – **Albert Einstein**

“The willingness to forgive is a sign of spiritual and emotional maturity. It is one of the great virtues to which we all should aspire. Imagine a world filled with individuals willing both to apologize and to accept an apology. Is there any problem that could not be solved among people who possessed the humility and largeness of spirit and soul to do either — or both — when needed?”
Gordon B. Hinckley

Maturity is when you realize that self-improvement is more important than seeking validation from others. — Maturity is when you realize that **self-improvement** is more important than seeking validation from others.

As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. - Andrew Carnegie — As I **grow** older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do. – **Andrew Carnegie**

You cannot be a winner without maturity and consistency. - Marco Silva — You cannot be a winner without maturity and **consistency**. – Marco Silva

Top 20 Wise Quotes About Maturity (WISDOM)

“A mature person is one who does not think only in absolutes, who is able to be objective even when deeply stirred emotionally, who has learned that there is both good and bad in all people and in all things, and who walks humbly and deals charitably with the circumstances of life, knowing that in this world no one is all knowing and therefore all of us need both love and charity.”
Eleanor Roosevelt

Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. - Tom Stoppard — Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up. – Tom Stoppard

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

Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity. - Tracy McMillan — Caring – about people, about things, about life – is an act of maturity. – Tracy McMillan

“One of the greatest indicators of our own spiritual maturity is revealed in how we respond to the weaknesses, the inexperience, and the potentially offensive actions of others.”
David A. Bednar

Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. - Laura Marling — Age is relative. Experience is relative. And I think often intensity is confused with maturity. – Laura Marling

“I don’t think people change. I think they definitely mature. But I think the essence of what I am today is the same as when I was five years old. It’s just maturity. I’ve become a healthier, fuller expression of that essence.”
Ricky Williams

Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. - Mark Manson — Maturity is the ability to prioritize values before feelings. – **Mark Manson**

Maturity is when you live your life by your commitments, not by your feelings. - Rick Warren — Maturity is when you live your life by your **commitments**, not by your feelings. – **Rick Warren**

Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking. - James Clear — Maturity is learning how to start when you feel like procrastinating and learning how to listen when you feel like talking. – James Clear

“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.”
Ann Landers

Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. - Sigmund Freud — Maturity is the ability to postpone gratification. – **Sigmund Freud**

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. - Joshua Loth Liebman — Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. – Joshua Loth Liebman

Confidence comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself. - Nicole Scherzinger — **Confidence** comes with maturity, being more accepting of yourself. – Nicole Scherzinger

“The greatest form of maturity is at harvest time. This is when we must learn how to reap without complaint if the amounts are small and how to reap without apology if the amounts are big.”
Jim Rohn

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. - Thomas A. Edison — Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth. – **Thomas A. Edison**

“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that’s how I approached the part.”
Christopher Reeve

To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. - William Arthur Ward — To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to **laugh** at yourself is maturity. – **William Arthur Ward**

“When the child begins to think and to make use of the written language to express his rudimentary thinking, he is ready for elementary work; and this fitness is a question not of age or other incidental circumstance but of mental maturity.”
Maria Montessori

You can’t be mature if you don’t know yourself. Experiences, failures, and reflection will bring you what you need. - Maxime Lagacé — You can’t be mature if you don’t know yourself. Experiences, **failures**, and reflection will bring you what you need. – Maxime Lagacé

20 Quotes About Maturity in Love & Relationships

“The idea that love is something magical, almost supernatural, in your heart, that has nothing to do with the day-to-day encounters with a real person— that understanding of love has probably created more unhappiness and ruined more marriages than just about anything. Love is what happens between people living their lives together, becoming close through contact and actual partnership and it’s what survives through difficulties and imperfections. An idealized, imagined, faraway person in your heart—that’s not love. That’s a daydream.”
Misha Glouberman

Mature love is loving not being loved. - Irvin D. Yalom — Mature love is loving not being loved. – Irvin D. Yalom

Mature love speaks 'we' and not 'I’, it speaks needing the other person. When the other person feels needed, love is bound to grow. — Mature love speaks ‘we’ and not ‘I’, it speaks needing the other person. When the other person feels needed, love is bound to grow.

We mature with the damage, not with the years.

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”
Bruce Lee

Real, sane, mature love – the kind that pays the mortgage year after year.

“How do you spell love?… when you reach the point where the happiness, security and development of another person is as much of a driving force to you as your own happiness, security, and development, then you have a mature love. True love is spelled G-I-V-E. It is not based on what you can get, but rooted in what you can give to the other person.”
Josh McDowell

Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, companionship, and trust. - H. Jackson Brown, Jr. — Mature love is composed and sustaining; a celebration of commitment, **companionship**, and **trust**. – **H. Jackson Brown, Jr.**

“To progress in a relationship is to have learned maturity over a period of time. This is usually as a result of how we are able to handle and respond wisely to the situations faced in that moment of weakness.”
Anonymous

Relationship are better when two people are mature enough to commit.

“Mature love is not a surrender of the self but a surrender to the self. The ego surrenders its hegemony of the personality to the heart, but in this surrender it is not annihilated. Rather it is strengthened because its roots in the body are nourished by the joy that the body feels.”
Alexander Lowen

I’d date someone younger or older; age doesn’t matter to me. Or looks, really – it’s all about maturity. - Leona Lewis — I’d date someone younger or older; age doesn’t matter to me. Or looks, really – it’s all about maturity. – Leona Lewis

Immature love says 'I love you because I need you'. Mature love says 'I need you because I love you'. - Erich Fromm — Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you’. Mature love says ‘I need you because I love you’. – Erich Fromm

“It is believed that marriage kills love. However, this is not a true statement. In the marital status, people begin to learn to express their love without romantic words, using mostly their body language, and this can be called mature love. Mature love requires not just romanticism, but a deep life experience.”
Elmar Hussein

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. - Victor Hugo — The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves. – **Victor Hugo**

Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds. - Boyd K. Packer — Mature love has a bliss not even imagined by newlyweds. – Boyd K. Packer

“Any mature, spiritually sensitive view of marriage must be built on the foundation of mature love rather than romanticism. But this immediately casts us into a countercultural pursuit.”
Gary L. Thomas

A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. - Honore de Balzac — A woman knows the face of the man she loves as a sailor knows the open sea. – **Honore de Balzac**

The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider 'romance'. - Joss Whedon — The only way to real mature love is to get past the tropes of what we consider ‘romance’. – Joss Whedon

“Falling in love you remain a child; rising in love you mature. By and by love becomes not a relationship, it becomes a state of your being. Not that you are in love – now you are love.”
Osho