~ Maturity begins when we're content to feel we're right about something, without feeling the necessity to prove someone else is wrong. ~
~ One sign of maturity is the ability to be comfortable with people who are not like us. ~
~ The immature man wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mature man wants to live humanely for one. ~
~ Youth condemns; maturity condones. ~
~ Maturity is the capacity to endure uncertainty. ~
~ Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play. ~
~ To be mature means to face, and not evade, every fresh crisis that comes. ~
~ To make mistakes is human; to stumble is commonplace; to be able to laugh at yourself is maturity. ~
~ Mountaintops inspire leaders but valleys mature them. ~
~ Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension. ~
~ Maturity is knowing when to be immature. ~
~ Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ~