“By the time I’d grown up, I naturally supposed that I’d be grown up.”
Eve Babitz

“To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes.”
Fritz Kunkel

“My Father taught me how to be a man – and not by instilling in me a sense of machismo or an agenda of dominance. He taught me that a real man doesn’t take, he gives; he doesn’t use force, he uses logic; doesn’t play the role of trouble-maker, but rather, trouble-shooter; and most importantly, a real man is defined by what’s in his heart, not his pants.”
Kevin Smith

“Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.”
Jules Feiffer

“Age is no guarantee of maturity.”
Lawana Blackwell

“What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.”
Dave Barry

“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no longer be vulnerable. But to grow up is to accept vulnerability… To be alive is to be vulnerable.”
Madeleine L’Engle

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

“The rate at which a person can mature is directly proportional to the embarrassment he can tolerate.”
Douglas Engelbart

“Maturity is: The ability to stick with a job until it’s finished; The ability to do a job without being supervised; The ability to carry money without spending it; and The ability to bear an injustice without wanting to get even.”
Abigail Van Buren

“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”
John Finley

“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.”
John MacNaughton

“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”
Joshua Loth Liebman

“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
Tom Stoppard

“To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.”
William Arthur Ward

“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of a mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.”
Wilhelm Stekel

“A person’s maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play.”
Friedrich Nietzsche

“Maturity consists of no longer being taken in by oneself.”
Proverb

“Youth condemns; maturity condones.”
Amy Lowell

“Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you’d have the time of your life.”
Unknown