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A successful man is one who makes more money than his wife can spend. A successful woman is one who can find such a man.
Lana Turner

Money, Successful, Wife

A nation that continues year after year to spend more money on military defense than on programs of social uplift is approaching spiritual doom.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Money, Spiritual, After

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Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Down, Give, Four

Learn to enjoy every minute of your life. Be happy now. Don't wait for something outside of yourself to make you happy in the future. Think how really precious is the time you have to spend, whether it's at work or with your family. Every minute should be enjoyed and savored.
Earl Nightingale

Life, Work, Family

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men, the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.
Helen Keller

Time, Good, Men

An intelligent man is sometimes forced to be drunk to spend time with his fools.
Ernest Hemingway

Time, Drunk, Sometimes

People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives.
J. Michael Straczynski

Time, Past, Blame

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Thinking, Him

Too many people spend money they haven't earned to buy things they don't want to impress people they don't like.
Will Smith

Money, Impress, Earned

Never spend your money before you have earned it.
Thomas Jefferson

Money, Before, Earned

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.
Bruce Lee

Time, Thinking, Done

The hours I spend with you I look upon as sort of a perfumed garden, a dim twilight, and a fountain singing to it. You and you alone make me feel that I am alive. Other men it is said have seen angels, but I have seen thee and thou art enough.
George Edward Moore

Men, Art, Alone

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.
Jim Rohn

Hurt, Give, Try

Time is the coin of your life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.
Carl Sandburg

Life, Time, Careful

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10 years, and I hope the American public is catching on.
Warren Buffett

Money, Hope, Down

Don't dwell on what went wrong. Instead, focus on what to do next. Spend your energies on moving forward toward finding the answer.
Denis Waitley

Forward, Moving, Focus

It's silly talking about how many years we will have to spend in the jungles of Vietnam when we could pave the whole country and put parking stripes on it and still be home by Christmas.
Ronald Reagan

Christmas, Home, Country

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin Franklin

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw

Health, Yourself, Die

Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean.
John Muir

Nature, Heart, Away

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.
Coco Chanel

Time, Door, Hoping

It is of practical value to learn to like yourself. Since you must spend so much time with yourself you might as well get some satisfaction out of the relationship.
Norman Vincent Peale

Time, Yourself, Learn

If you spend your life competing with business men, what do you have? A bank account and ulcers!
Marilyn Monroe

Life, Men, Business

Bottom line is, I didn't return to Apple to make a fortune. I've been very lucky in my life and already have one. When I was 25, my net worth was $100 million or so. I decided then that I wasn't going to let it ruin my life. There's no way you could ever spend it all, and I don't view wealth as something that validates my intelligence.
Steve Jobs

Life, Worth, Lucky

Spend some time this weekend on home improvement; improve your attitude toward your family.
Bo Bennett

Family, Time, Home

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.
Elbert Hubbard

Time, Attitude, Character

Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford

Time, Trying, Energy

I am confident that nobody... will accuse me of selfishness if I ask to spend time, while I am still in good health, with my family, my friends and also with myself.
Nelson Mandela

Family, Time, Good

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.
Elbert Hubbard

Money, Country, Until

Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.
Dale Carnegie

Time, Trying, Why

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