"Maturity: Be able to stick with a job until it is finished. Be able to bear an injustice without having to get even. Be able to carry money without spending it. Do your duty without being supervised."

Landers, Ann on maturity
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"Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't get his pants on."

Lewis, Joe E. on maturity
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"Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself."

Macnaughton, John on maturity
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"Maturity is the time of life when, if you had the time, you'd have the time of your life."

Unknown, Source on maturity
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"Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well."

Rohn, Jim on maturity
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"True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends boyfriends -- and he accepts it."

Mcmurtry, Larry on maturity   

"In a dark time, the eye begins to see."

Roethke, Theodore on adversity
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"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him."

Aikman, Leo on action
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"A gem cannot be polished without friction, nor a man perfected without trials."

Proverb, Chinese on adversity
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"A stumble may prevent a fall."

Proverb, English on adversity
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"I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make it through one door, I'll go through another door -- or I'll make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark the present."

Tagore, Rabindranath on adversity
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"If we study the lives of great men and women carefully and unemotionally we find that, invariably, greatness was developed, tested and revealed through the darker periods of their lives. One of the largest tributaries of the RIVER OF GREATNESS is always the STREAM OF ADVERSITY."

Robert, Cavett on adversity   

"The depth of darkness to which you can descend and still live is an exact measure of the height to which you can aspire to reach."

Post, Laurens Van du on adversity
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"The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you."

Rogers, Will on adversity
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"To endure is the first thing that a child ought to learn, and that which he will have the most need to know."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"He who knows the darkness shall learn to live in the light."

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"The difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones is how you use them"

Unknown, Source on adversity
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"Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men."

Seneca on adversity
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"One who gains strength by overcoming obstacles possesses the only strength which can overcome adversity."

Schweitzer, Albert on adversity
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"Tough times never last, but tough people do."

Schuller, Robert H. on adversity
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"When it gets dark enough you can see the stars."

Salk, Lee on adversity
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"Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid."

Rousseau, Jean Jacques on adversity
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"The question Who ought to be boss? is like as Who ought to be the tenor in the quartet? Obviously, the man who can sing tenor."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all."

Erasmus, Desiderius on ability
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"The first requisite for success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem incessantly without growing weary."

Edison, Thomas A. on ability
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"To sentence a man of true genius, to the drudgery of a school is to put a racehorse on a treadmill."

Colton, Charles Caleb on ability
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"Ability without honor is useless."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"Natural ability without education has more often raised a man to glory and virtue than education without natural ability."

Cicero, Marcus T. on ability
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"It is all one to me if a man comes from Sing Sing Prison or Harvard. We hire a man, not his history."

Ford, Henry on ability
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"The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on ability
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"Ability is a poor man's wealth."

Wren, M. on ability
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"Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there."

Wooden, John on ability
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"The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what a man or woman is able to do that counts."

Washington, Booker T. on ability
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"God does not ask about our ability, but our availability."

Unknown, Source on ability
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"Analyzing what you haven't got as well as what you have is a necessary ingredient of a career."

Moore, Grace on ability
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"It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test."

Hubbard, Elbert on ability
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"A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart."

Greville, Lord on generosity
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"Generosity is giving more than you can, and pride is taking less than you need."

Gibran, Kahlil on generosity
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"To generous souls every task is noble."

Euripides on generosity
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