A well-adjusted person is one who can play bridge or golf as if they were games.
There are no shortcuts on the way to spiritual maturity.
When a man has a pet peeve, it is remarkable how often he pets it.
When growth stops, decay begins.
Growth is more important than status; growth is fit for eternity, status built for time.
When trouble comes, a man’s true quality is revealed.
The mature man wants to live and have a cause–the immature man wants to die for a cause.
Some people are consistent–they remain immature all their lives.
Adults should not only produce children in marriage but the children should produce adults.
Adulthood is learning to have not only the right to be right, but the right to be wrong.
Any fool can find fault, but it takes maturity to find good in all people.
You are only young once, but you can stay immature all your life.
If we’re not perfect, let us at least be progressing.
Big people are those who make us feel bigger when we are with them.
The more we grow up the less we will blow up.
Don’t be like the wheelbarrow–it has to be pushed all the time and is easily upset.
The longer you nurse a grudge, the longer it takes to get better.
Mature people take disappointments in stride.
The conversion of a soul is the miracle of a moment–the growth of a saint is the work of a lifetime.
Where you cannot invent, you can always improve.
Mature believers should use their strength to undergird, not to overpower.
He who guides himself has a fool for a follower.
The true Christian is one who is right-side up in an upside-down world.
The human race has improved everything except the human race.
Be willing to die for your convictions but not for your preferences.
If you’re properly prepared, you won’t easily be surprised.
A lot of people believe in law and order as long as they can lay down the law and give the orders.
When you speak to others for their own good, it’s advice–when they speak to you for your own good, it’s interference.
People with much to do are rarely in trouble. It is the vacant, tumble-down minds that cause unhappiness to themselves and to others.
Many a person has convictions for which he wants someone else to supply the courage.
Watch a goat from the front, a horse from behind, and a man from every side.
Accepting good advice increases your ability.
If all the cars in America were lined up in a row, someone would pull out and try to pass them.
Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
The moon could never do its work if it paid attention to all the dogs that barked at it.
It is never too late to mend because the older we become, the more repairs we need.
The longer you dwell on your misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm you.
Some adolescents are like salad–pretty green, full of vinegar, and all mixed up.
Most people don’t know what they want, but it is something different than what they have.
The trouble with being a good sport is that you have to lose to prove it.
Can you take it? Hammering hardens steel but crumbles putty.
Energy spent in getting even is better spent getting ahead.
Many great ideas have been lost because the folks who had them couldn’t stand to be laughed at.
In days of sunshine, so live that in the days of rain you will still be happy.
Even if half of our wishes came true, then we would have twice as many troubles.
Many great ideas have been lost because the folks who had them couldn’t stand to be laughed at.
It seems that heads, hearts, and hands would settle the world’s differences much better than “arms.”
It’s funny how we never get too old to learn some new way to be stupid.
The most difficult test of the human heart is to hear of an enemy’s success without becoming jealous.
There are some Christians with beards on their faces who are babies.
Don’t depend on the rabbit’s foot for good luck–it didn’t bring him good luck.
Authority makes some people grow–others just sweat.
Think of what others ought to be like; then start being like that yourself.
We are moving forward at twice the speed of sound and half the speed of sense.
Only fools and dead men don’t change their minds. Fools won’t–dead men can’t.
If men grew physically at the rate they grow spiritually, many of them would spend their lives in a playpen.
A good test of maturity is the amount of danger you feel when you meet up with a new idea.