Quotes with late-comers

Quotes 61 till 80 of 140.

  • Ben Carson It doesn't matter if you come from the inner city. People who fail in life are people who find lots of excuses. It's never too late for a person to recognize that they have potential in themselves.
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Bill Mumy It got to the point in the late 70s and early 80s that I was spending so much money buying golden age comics that I could only justify it if I got work in the media.
    Bill Mumy
    American actor and musician (1954 - )
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  • George Eliot It is never too late to be what you might have been.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Daniel Defoe It is never too late to be wise.
    Source: Robinson Crusoe (1719)
    Daniel Defoe
    English writer (1660 - 1731)
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  • Henry David Thoreau It is never too late to give up your prejudices.
    Source: Walden (1854) Chapter 1: Economy
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • E. M. Cioran It is not worth the bother of killing yourself, since you always kill yourself too late.
    E. M. Cioran
    French-Romanian philosopher (1911 - 1995)
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  • Cato the Elder It is thus with farming, if you do one thing late, you will be late in all your work.
    Cato the Elder
    Roman senator and historian (234 - 149)
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  • Betty Ford It's always been my feeling that God lends you your children until they're about eighteen years old. If you haven't made your points with them by then, it's too late.
    Source: The times of my life
    Betty Ford
    American First Lady (1918 - 2011)
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  • Tom Robbins It's never too late to have a happy childhood.
    Tom Robbins
    American novelist (1932 - )
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  • Barbara Windsor Jessie Wallace was the first time I erupted. She was late, she was young. She's not like that any more. I lost my temper. It was silly and I burst into tears and ran up to the producer. I said I had been terrible and amateur.
    Barbara Windsor
    English actress (1937 - )
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  • Candice Millard Late-19th-century America, with all its chaotic change and immense potential, seems to have been the perfect place to become not someone else, but someone new.
    Candice Millard
    American writer and journalist (1968 - )
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  • Bob Woodward Lawyers didn't seriously get involved in the Watergate stories until quite late, when we realized we were on to something.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Benjamin Franklin Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Stephen Leacock Life, we learn too late, is in the living, the tissue of every day and hour.
    Stephen Leacock
    Canadian humorist and economist (1869 - 1944)
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  • Lord George Byron Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Douglas Jerrold Love's like the measles; all the worse when it comes late in life.
    Douglas Jerrold
    English journalist and playwright (1803 - 1857)
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  • Bruce Catton Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
    Bruce Catton
    American historian and journalist (1899 - 1978)
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  • Jean Paul Getty My formula for success is rise early, work late, and strike oil.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Brendan Gleeson My grandfather played a mandolin, so I got my hands on that. Then on down to a banjo, and I found I couldn't play any kind of soft or mournful music with that so I took up the fiddle in my late 20s or early 30s - and that was far too late. But it keeps me off the streets. It has been a love of mine since I was 17 maybe.
    Brendan Gleeson
    Irish actor and film director (1955 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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