Definition of Maturity

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Maturity

The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

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Maturity Quotations

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

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.
Jim Rohn

The vow of celibacy is a matter of keeping one's word to Christ and the Church. a duty and a proof of the priest's inner maturity; it is the expression of his personal dignity.
Pope John Paul II

Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison

Maturity includes the recognition that no one is going to see anything in us that we don't see in ourselves. Stop waiting for a producer. Produce yourself.
Marianne Williamson

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge

Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter could be said to remedy anything.
Kurt Vonnegut

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

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

Know how to behave at a fine restaurant, which is a telltale measure of social maturity.
Marilyn vos Savant

Maturity Translations

maturity in German is Reife
maturity in Spanish is madurez
maturity in Swedish is mognad

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