To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity.
William Arthur Ward
Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements (as well as one's deepest failures) is a definite symptom of maturity.
Paul Johannes Tillich
Purposes fraught with horror, that shun the light, and contemplate the pollution of innocence are here engendered, and fostered, and reared to maturity.
Charles Brockden Brown
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse
Benjamin Spock
Age is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.
Martha Graham
I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony, style, joy, and dignity he creates in his marriage, and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.
Benjamin Spock
One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us.
Virgil A. Kraft
Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong.
Sydney J. Harris
Youth condemns; maturity condones.
Amy Lowell
If growing up is the process of creating ideas and dreams about what life should be, then maturity is letting go again.
Mary Beth Danielson
A Silver Jubilee has a special significance in the life of any institution as it signifies a coming of age and maturity
L. K. Mohohlo