Maturity Quotes

To have a loving relationship with a sister is not simply to have a buddy or a confident, it is to have a soulmate for life.
Victoria Secunda

Be curious, not judgmental.

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

Intelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.

Only actions give life strength; only moderation gives it charm.
Jean Paul

The devil's voice is sweet to hear.

No good friends, no bad friends; only people you want, need to be with. People who build their houses in your heart.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

The game is my wife. It demands loyalty and responsibility, and it gives me back fulfillment and peace
Michael Jordan

Freedom is what you do with what's been done to you.
Jean Paul Sartre

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

In a person who is open to experience each stimulus is freely relayed through the nervous system, without being distorted by any process of defensiveness.
Carl Rogers

Lead, follow, or get out of the way.

Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.

Just as your car runs more smoothly and requires less energy to go faster and farther when the wheels are in perfect alignment, you perform better when your thoughts, feelings, emotions, goals, and values are in balance.

Relationships are the hallmark of the mature person.

We cannot direct the wind, but we can adjust the sails.
Dolly Parton

Courage is knowing what not to fear.

Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling the desire.

Keep silence for the most part, and speak only when you must, and then briefly.

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain, and play with it.

Yeah, all those things, responsibility, pressure. It's a bit stressful. I try and come to terms with it by not thinking about it.
Joe Strummer

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus

Never take counsel of your fears.

I think knowing what you cannot do is more important than knowing what you can.
Lucille Ball

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Ellen DeGeneres

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.
George Orwell

I don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

I am bound to tell what I am told, but not in every case to believe it.
Herodotus

It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen.
Herodotus

Don't rely on men but don't shun them either.
Jennifer Aniston

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual.
Sigmund Freud

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.
R. Buckminster Fuller

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.
R. Buckminster Fuller

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.
Thomas Hardy

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke

I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death... I think... peace and tranquillity will return again.
Anne Frank

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.
Anne Frank

Grown men do not need leaders.
Edward Abbey

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
Edward Abbey

Change happens by listening and then starting a dialogue with the people who are doing something you don't believe is right.
Jane Goodall

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

I've always thought anyone can make money. Making a life worth living, that's the real test.
Robert Fulghum

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.
Robert Fulghum