Top 1200 Emotional Maturity Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

I love historical fiction because there's a literal truth, and there's an emotional truth, and what the fiction writer tries to create is that emotional truth.

What is a great life but a youthful intention carried out in maturity?

Faithfully caring for the poor and needy is a reflection of spiritual maturity.

You can talk yourself into a good emotional state. I stop for a second, take a deep breath, and think about something that's beautiful. A beautiful thought for me is cutting the umbilical cord for my child. I can guarantee you that your emotional state will change.

You gain a certain maturity from being a nurse in a cancer ward.

One of the truest tests of spiritual maturity is seeing the miraculous in the monotonous.

There were time when I was into method acting that I did have moments of residual character emotions, because the method bases your emotional responses as a character on emotional experiences from your real life.

To give, and not demand that others receive . . . that is the crossover point to maturity. . .

Perhaps people don't come into their true maturity until a parent dies.

Being willing to delay pleasure for a greater result is a sign of maturity.

Emotional intelligence, more than any other factor, more than I.Q. or expertise, accounts for 85% to 90% of success at work... I.Q. is a threshold competence. You need it, but it doesn't make you a star. Emotional intelligence can.

Education as growth or maturity should be an ever-present process.

I do not claim to have attained optimum emotional well-being. Actually, I think that may be a lifetime goal. For me it’s an ongoing process that requires awareness, knowledge, and practice. I do know what good emotional health feels like, and that motivates me to keep at the practice.

It seldom happens that a premature shoot of genius ever arrives at maturity.

Spiritual maturity is measured in terms of persevering faith, not perfect behavior

Spiritual maturity is marked by being comfortable with the unpredictability of God.

I think guys are more emotional. Men are supposed to be the strong ones, they have pressure on them to be strong, but when it comes to sex men are much more emotional than women.

Spiritual maturity is not reached by the passing of the years, but by obedience to the will of God.

I've always had a maturity level different than guys my age.

Man's maturity: to have regained the seriousness that he had as a child at play.

I think that there are cancers of the body, but I think they are what I would call cancer of the emotional system, too. These are the kind of diseases or illnesses or sicknesses of the emotional system that are as incurable as cancer.

The Bible is the divine means of developing spiritual maturity. There is no other way.

A person's readiness to date is largely a matter of maturity and environment.

A patient willingness to defer dividends is a hallmark of individual maturity.

One of the marks of maturity is the ability to disagree without becoming disagreeable

Boys are two years behind girls in maturity level.

I think, being emotional is this thing that people think you're not strong. They don't look at you as a strong person, and it's weird 'cuz honestly being emotional has nothing to do with your strength.

Obviously, the young dancers lack a certain air of maturity.

So often, the discarded love of youth is desperately yearned for in maturity.

Don't get offended, there's no need for insecurity, Age is but a number, it's all about maturity.

There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'

We buy expecting to hold a bond to maturity and a stock forever.

Anger clearly has its proper place at work, which is neither wholly absent nor ever present. The manager who is an emotional blank is just as hard to work for as the volcanic boss, and both can do great harm by setting an unhelpful example for what kind of emotional expression is expected and accepted.

Maturity is reached the day we don't need to be lied to about anything.

In the end, it's a mental maturity to let your best come out.

Maturity is developed by respecting others and accepting responsibility for violating that respect.

Yeah, you know, if I'm having an emotional scene I do like to go off and be by myself; not to say that I'm a method actor or anything like that, but for scenes like that that are more emotional, I do like to take that night off and not be so social.

Even when you're producing difficult material and you get emotional, after it you feel good; you feel like you've done a good job, or had an emotional release. I've always enjoyed that, but you go home and think, that was a good day's work, and you move on.

The ultimate sign of maturity is knowing just how immature you really are.

Brazilians tend to have that weakness, they get emotional. You can easily get them upset and get them out of their comfort zone. They're clever too and very gifted athletes but they have that emotional thing, which we Europeans also have a little bit of.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Maturity begins on the day we accept responsibility for our own actions.

I think there's a lot more appreciation and maturity and acceptance of everyone's flaws.

You will get to your maturity quickly if you stay in the nothingness.

Acceptance by government of a dissident press is a measure of the maturity of a nation.

I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Only practical work and experience lead the young to maturity.

He who acts under an emotional impulse also acts. What distinguishes an emotional action from other actions is the valuation of input and output. Emotions disarrange valuations. Inflamed with passion, man sees the goal as more desirable and the price he has to pay for it as less burdensome than he would in cool deliberation.

Real success is gaining the ability to face situations in life with maturity.

Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.

Maturity… is the ability to do something even though your parents have recommended it.

I love to cook, and my wife loves to cook. Sometimes it's the appeal of the simplest of dishes - things you've grown up with in your life. Your emotional memory - something that not only affects your taste buds but that you've got an emotional attachment to.

I think for leadership positions, emotional intelligence is more important than cognitive intelligence. People with emotional intelligence usually have a lot of cognitive intelligence, but that's not always true the other way around.

Maturity is wanting nothing but what we see with the purity of our heart.

Sometimes success will get in the way of maturity - at least temporarily.

Maturity is achieved when a person accepts life as full of tension.

My ideal goal is to "mature" into childhood. That would be genuine maturity.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

I like a woman who has both maturity and ingenuity. This comes under the heading of femininity.

Youth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.