#maturity

The other day the President said, I know you've had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy? ↗

— Dan Quayle

#faith #had #i #know #like

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. ↗

— Karl Rahner

#doing #every #found #freedom #grow

What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#approached #hero #how #i #makes

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking. ↗

— Franklin D. Roosevelt

#bitter #cynical #i #i am #i do

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

#dignity #harmony #his #i #inspiration

Youth condemns; maturity condones. ↗

— Amy Lowell

#maturity #youth

Maturity is achieved when a person postpones immediate pleasures for long-term values. ↗

— Joshua L. Liebman

#immediate #long-term #maturity #person #pleasures

If any human being is to reach full maturity both the masculine and feminine sides of the personality must be brought up into consciousness. ↗

— M. Esther Harding

#being #both #brought #consciousness #feminine

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future. ↗

— Erich Maria Remarque

#maturity #war #wisdom #age

It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#spiritual-maturity #leadership