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“To bear defeat with dignity, to accept criticism with poise, to receive honors with humility -- these are marks of maturity and graciousness.”
William Arthur Ward
“Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.”
John MacNaughton
“I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.”
Albert Einstein
“Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your maturity is how spiritual you become during the midst of your frustrations.”
Samuel Ullman
“Maturity is a high price to pay for growing up.”
Tom Stoppard
“Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values.”
Joshua Loth Liebman
“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
“When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.”
Mark Twain
“A person's maturity consists in having found again the seriousness one had as a child, at play”
Friedrich Nietzsche
“Maturity of mind is the capacity to endure uncertainty.”
John Finley
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