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

2. Take responsibility for your life and actions, and focus on what you can control rather than what you cannot.

3. Responsibility makes you mature, not age.

4. We mature with damage, not with years.

5. Grades do not measure intelligence, and age does not define maturity.

6. When you mature from a young age, people will act like you are hard to deal with because you are not easy to fool.

7. Maturity is when you realise that the new year and the birthday will not change your life.

8. A man who is a master of patience is a master of everything else.

9. Strong minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events and weak minds discuss people.

10. As you get older, you start to pay more attention to people’s mindset rather than their looks.

11. Everyone working man makes mistakes. However, reasonable people yield when they know their course is wrong and repair the evil. The only crime is pride.

12. Maturity is when a person hurts you, and you try to understand their situation rather than hurt them back.

13. Maturity is when you know the other person is lying, but smile and let it go.

14. You are not grown up until you know how to communicate, apologise, be truthful and accept accountability without blaming someone else.

15. Do not seek revenge. The rotten fruits will fall by themselves.

16. Learning to keep quiet takes more time than learning to speak.

17. Do not judge a situation you have never been in.

18. Only judge someone who knows the whole story. You may think you understand, but you don’t.

19. Have more than you show; speak less than you know.

20. A wise person does not speak ill of others; he knows he is someone else’s gossip.

21. Be careful with your words. Once they are said, they can only be forgiven, not forgotten.

22. Those who judge will never understand, and those who understand will never judge.

23. Control these 5 M: money, mind, mood, mouth and manner.