Harry Belafonte Quotes

At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan.

I've always sort of time-locked and mind-blocked myself in my 30s, and that's always the age I feel.

At 50, I began to know who I was. It was like waking up to myself.

I did find my direction at an early age.

I had my mid-life crisis at 29. I've got my thirties and forties into the back end of my twenties.

Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.

If you have anything better to be doing when death overtakes you, get to work on that.

My new years resolution? I will be less laz.

What you haven't done by thirty you're not likely to do. What you have done you'll do lots more.

We turn not older with years but newer every day.

I can see myself now, she said. And I can see what I want to be, ten years from now. But I don't understand how I'm going to get from here to there.

Procrastination is the thief of time; year after year it steals, till all are fled, and to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal state. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool; knows it at forty, and reforms his plan; at fifty chides his infamous delay, pushes his prudent purpose to resolve; in all the magnanimity of thought, resolves, and re-resolves, then dies the same.

I decided a long time ago but sometimes it takes you 40 years to get around to doing something - and that's the truthful answer.

For all their bitching about what’s holding them back, most people have a lot of trouble coming up with the defined dreams they’re being held from.

Whether it was work, marriage, or family, I've always been a late bloomer.

Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?

I recently turned 60. Practically a third of my life is over.

I would have been an archaeologist or something, maybe a historian. There are a lot of things I would have liked to have done differently, but everything that happened to me made me the person I am today. No matter how negative it seemed at the time or whatever hardship it seemed to have been at that time, Im just the sum of all those amazing experiences.

They were all in their early thirties. An age at which it is sometimes hard to admit that what you are living is your life.

Unless you have a definite, precise, clearly set goals, you are not going to realize the maximum potential that lies within you.

Each week set 1 day aside to do something you've always wanted to do.

It's okay to grow up, it's just slowing down that's the scary part. Running out of time. It's okay to grow up, but it doesn't mean you have to become like your parents.

I could point out that it isn't always easy knowing who you are and what you want, because then you have no excuse for not trying to get it.