Immaturity And Growing Up Quotes & Sayings

There has been among us, particularly in America, an adolescent competitiveness - a feeling that life is a race in which the victory of one must mean the defeat of the other. No one can measure how much personal unhappiness and inner cowardice have come from this immaturity of our social outlook, this childlike comparison, this absurd rivalry in every area of life. As our democracy becomes more mature, men have a chance of growing up and of realizing that every person is needed and has some contribution to make. — Joshua Loth Liebman

Maturity cannot be hurried, programmed, or tinkered with. There are no steroids available for growing up in Christ more quickly. Impatient shortcuts land us in the dead ends of immaturity. — Eugene H. Peterson

When new hopes fail, old hopes return in the endless cycle of desperation. — Dean Koontz

The much-sought prize of eternal youth
Is just arrested growth. — Edgar Lee Masters

She had been a teenager once, and she knew that, despite the apparent contradictions, a person's teenage years lasted well into their fifties. — Derek Landy

Isn't it fascinating to think that probably the only laugh that man will ever get in his life is by stripping off and showing his shortcomings? — David Niven

... I guessed that when you are nearly a man, you have to learn to put up with a lot of aggravation from little old bitty kids. — Fred Gipson

I truly, truly believe that I was going in that direction and all of a sudden fate took me and put me here. It's like something else has other plans for me. — Christopher Atkins

Paula laughed, remembering more of her mother's words: Better to be unhappy in a Mercedes-Benz than unhappy on a bus. To which Paula had always responded, I'd rather be happy. — Fiona Higgins

Be able to meet any deadline, even if your work is done less well than it would be if you had all the time you would have preferred. — Marilyn Vos Savant

Why do children want to grow up? Because they experience their lives as constrained by immaturity and perceive adulthood as a condition of greater freedom and opportunity. But what is there today, in America, that very poor and very rich adolescents want to do but cannot do? Not much: they can do drugs, have sex, make babies, and get money (from their parents, crime, or the State). For such adolescents, adulthood becomes synonymous with responsibility rather than liberty. Is it any surprise that they remain adolescents? — Thomas Szasz