Young Man Quotes - Page 10

• Public life is regarded as the crown of a career, and to young men it is the worthiest ambition. Politics is still the greatest and the most honorable adventure.

  Pat Riley

  Life, Travel, Ambition

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• The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character.

  John D. Rockefeller

  Success, Character, Responsibility

  John D. Rockefeller (2015). “John D. Rockefeller on Making Money: Advice and Words of Wisdom on Building and Sharing Wealth”, p.30, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• The average bright young man who is drafted hates the whole business because an army always tries to eliminate the individual differences in men.

  Andy Rooney

  Hate, Army, Men

  Andrew A. Rooney (2010). “Andy Rooney: 60 Years of Wisdom and Wit”, p.89, PublicAffairs

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• Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Reading, Men, People

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (2013). “Emile”, p.340, Courier Corporation

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• Certainly, poverty and economic decline have a lot to do with the so-called rage of Islam. You've got all these young men in countries which are economically in bad shape. The idea that they might be able to make a good living and get married and have a family, a decent life, seems very remote to a lot of people in a lot of the world.

  Salman Rushdie

  Country, Men, Ideas

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• The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

  George Santayana

  Men, Laughing, Savages

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• All young men want to prove themselves.

  Sylvester Stallone

  Men, Want, Young

  Interview with Rob Carnevale, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don't get young men standing up and saying, 'How can I combine career and family?'

  Gertrude Stein

  Men, Careers, Problem

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• The great majority of men, especially in France, both desire and possess a fashionable woman, much in the way one might own a fine horse - as a luxury befitting a young man.

  Stendhal

  Fashion, Horse, Men

  Stendhal (1957). “Love”, Merlin Pr

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• I dated dozens of young men, had fun with all, made commitments to none.

  Gene Tierney

  Fun, Commitment, Dozen

  Gene Tierney, Mickey Herskowitz (1979). “Self-portrait”, Peter Wyden

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• When I met Jack Kennedy, he was a serious young man with a dream. He was not a womanizer, not as I understood the term.

  Gene Tierney

  Dream, Men, Serious

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• As a young man, every bone in my body wanted to pick up a machine gun and kill Germans. And yet I had absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly nobody invited me to do the job. But that's what I felt that I was trained to do. Now no part of my upbringing was militaristic.

  Pete Townshend

  Jobs, Gun, Men

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• Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.

  Pete Townshend

  Writing, Men, Political

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• Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

  Anthony Trollope

  Men, Oxford, Literature

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “Castle Richmond”, p.123, Booklassic

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• Before Nelson Mandela was arrested in 1962, he was an angry, relatively young man. He founded the ANC's military wing. When he was released, he surprised everyone because he was talking about reconciliation and forgiveness and not about revenge.

  Desmond Tutu

  Revenge, Military, Men

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• There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

  John Updike

  Men, Goes On, Middle

  1986 In the New York Times, 24 Mar.

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• I was born in Israel, to Canadian parents. My father immigrated in 1948, part of a wave of young men and women who came as pioneers, to fight for a Jewish homeland. Their motive was in large part a reaction to the Holocaust, and their slogan was 'Never Again.'

  Ayelet Waldman

  Father, Fighting, Men

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• As a young man, I went to Paris and soaked up many hours of film knowledge from Robert Hakim in my efforts to become a producer.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Men, Paris, Effort

  "I Have Two Loves" by Harvey Weinstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 7, 2012.

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• People say that if you're still angry at 52, you're not an angry young man, just a grumpy old git.

  Paul Weller

  Men, People, Grumpy

  "Paul Weller: I am aware of the words 'national treasure' being attached to me" by Miranda Sawyer, www.theguardian.com. March 27, 2010.

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• And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

  Walt Whitman

  Hero, Men, May

  Walt Whitman (2009). “The Americanness of Walt Whitman”, p.41, Wildside Press LLC

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• Generally young men are regarded as radicals. This is a popular misconception. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Past, College, Men

  Speech to Inter-Church Conference on Federation, NewYork, N.Y., 19 Nov. 1905

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• A young man is so strong, so mad, so certain, and so lost. He has everything and he is able to use nothing.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Strong, Men, Mad

  Thomas Wolfe (1999). “Of Time and the River: A Legend of Man's Hunger in His Youth”, p.460, Simon and Schuster

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• Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

  Brigham Young

  Marriage, Men, Community

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• By the time I was a young man, I lived with two deep struggles: I longed to become a cricketer, and I performed miserably in school. Cricket and tennis were all that I lived for. In India, this was a formula for failure.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Struggle, School, Men

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• Today a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration, that we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves. Here's Tom with the Weather.

  Bill Hicks

  Funny, Dream, Witty

  "Sane Man". Documentary, Comedy, 1989.

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