
Youth is the time of getting, middle age of improving, and old age of spending.
- Topic: Age, Planning, Time
- Location: Grand Staircase-Escalante
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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He who is of a calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition, youth and age are equally a burden.
Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.
Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.
We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing.
The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.
Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.
I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.
I remember my youth and the feeling that I could last forever, outlast the sea, the earth and all men.
Old age isn’t so bad when you consider the alternative.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike at him as hard as you can and as often as you can, and keep moving on.
You better live your best and act your best and think your best today, for today is the sure preparation for tomorrow and all the other tomorrows that follow.
it takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
An hour of planning can say you 10 hours of doing.
The past has no power to stop you from being present now. Only your grievance about the past can do that.
Don’t make yourself miserable with what is to come or not to come.
All that is important in this moment is movement. Make the movement vital and worth living. Do not let it slip away unnoticed and unused.
In short, the way to wealth, if you desire it, is as plain as the way to market. It depends chiefly on two words, industry and frugality; that is. waste neither time nor money, but make the best use of both.
With time and patience the mulberry leaf becomes a silk gown.
Until you value yourself, you won't value your time. Until you value your time, you won't do anything with it.
