Young Man Quotes - Page 19

• It was quite tough, not many opportunities.
  I remember in primary school, one of my teachers said, "As for you young man, you haven't got much of a future."

  John Ilhan

  Inspirational, Teacher, Business

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• The best rules to form a young man are: to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

  William Temple

  Inspirational, Men, Effectiveness

  Sir William Temple (1814). “The Works of Sir William Temple, Bart: To which is Prefixed, the Life and Character of the Author, Considerably Enlarged”, p.547

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• Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

  James Weldon Johnson

  God, Men, Hands

  "The Prodigal Son" l. 2 (1927)

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• What a sweet reverence is that when a young man deems his mistress a little more than mortal and almost chides himself for longing to bring her close to his heart.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Life, Sweet, Heart

  Nathaniel Hawthorne (2015). “Complete Novels of Nathaniel Hawthorne (Illustrated Edition): Fanshawe, The Scarlet Letter with its Adaptation, The House of the Seven Gables, The Blithedale Romance, The Marble Faun, The Dolliver Romance, Septimius Felton, Grimshawe's Secret and Biography”, p.931, e-artnow

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• I really liked Wynton when I first met him. He's still a nice young man, only confused.

  Miles Davis

  Music, Confused, Nice

  " Wynton Marsalis: trumpeting controversial ideas of classicism" by Philip Clark, www.theguardian.com. November 6, 2015.

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• Over the years, the United States has sent many of its fine young men and women into great peril to fight for freedom beyond our borders. The only amount of land we have ever asked for in return is enough to bury those that did not return.

  Colin Powell

  Military, Patriotic, Fighting

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• The pioneers of a warless world are the young men (and women) who refuse military service.

  Albert Einstein

  Peace, Military, War

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• Ever since I was a young man, I wanted to run for the presidency in the worst possible way - and I did.

  George McGovern

  Running, Men, Politics

  "George McGovern Dies at 90, a Liberal Trounced but Never Silenced" by Asawin Suebsaeng, www.nytimes.com. October 21, 2012.

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• The fact is, if a young man is naturally indolent, the spur of necessity will drive him but a very little way, while the having enough to live upon is often the means of preserving his self-respect.

  James Payn

  Respect, Mean, Men

  James Payn (1882). “Sammlung”

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• I gather, young man, that you wish to be a Member of Parliament. The first lesson that you must learn is, when I call for statistics about the rate of infant mortality, what I want is proof that fewer babies died when I was Prime Minister than when anyone else was Prime Minister. That is a political statistic.

  Winston Churchill

  Baby, Learning, Science

  As cited in "The Life of Politics" by Henry Fairlie, Methuen, pp. 203-204., 1968.

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• My friends and I had taken dancing lessons, although none of us would ever admit it. In those depression days, a friend of my mother was trying to make a living by teaching dancing in the evening, in an upstairs dance studio. There was a back door to the place, and she arranged it so the young men could come up through the back way without being seen.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Dance, Mother, Teaching

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• As a young man I prayed for success. Now I just pray to be worthy of it.

  Brendan Fraser

  Inspirational, Men, Praying

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• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  Albert Einstein

  Teacher, Science, Men

  Quoted in Reporter, 18 Nov. 1954

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• I have all my life long been lying in bed till noon; yet I tell all young men, and tell them with great sincerity, that nobody who does not rise early will ever do any good.

  Samuel Johnson

  Lying, Men, Long

  In James Boswell 'Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides' (1785) 14 September 1773

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• A young man's ambition - to get along in the world and make a place for himself - half your life goes that way, till you're 45 or 50. Then, if you're lucky, you make terms with life, you get released.

  Robert Penn Warren

  Ambition, Men, Age

  The New York Times, June 2, 1981.

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• Of all the young men in America only a few hundred can get into major league baseball, and of these only a handful in a decade can get into the Hall of Fame. So it goes in all human activity. .. Some become multimillionaires and chairmen of the board, and some of us must be content to play baseball at company picnics or manage a credit union without pay.

  William Feather

  Baseball, Acceptance, Men

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• Believe me; all evil comes from the old. They grow fat on ideas and young men die of them.

  Jean Anouilh

  Believe, Men, Ideas

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• To young men contemplating a voyage I would say go.

  Joshua Slocum

  Inspirational, Funny, Encouraging

  Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.381, Sheridan House, Inc.

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• We can't have two standards, one set for the dedicated young men who want to do something ambitious and one set for those who don't.

  Bear Bryant

  Leadership, Basketball, Believe

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• No young man starting in life could have better capital than plenty of friends. They will strengthen his credit, support him in every great effort, and make him what, unaided, he could never be. Friends of the right sort will help him more - to be happy and successful - than much money.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Real, Successful, Men

  Orison Swett Marden (1907). “The Optimistic Life”

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• No mathematician should ever allow him to forget that mathematics, more than any other art or science, is a young man's game. ... Galois died at twenty-one, Abel at twenty-seven, Ramanujan at thirty-three, Riemann at forty. There have been men who have done great work later; ... [but] I do not know of a single instance of a major mathematical advance initiated by a man past fifty. ... A mathematician may still be competent enough at sixty, but it is useless to expect him to have original ideas.

  G. H. Hardy

  Art, Science, Past

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• Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.

  G. H. Hardy

  Book, Writing, Math

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• In the Spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove;
  In the Spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Change, Spring, Flower

  "Locksley Hall" l. 20 (1842)

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• I believe what really happens in history is this: the old man is always wrong; and the young people are always wrong about what is wrong with him. The practical form it takes is this: that, while the old man may stand by some stupid custom, the young man always attacks it with some theory that turns out to be equally stupid.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Stupid, Believe, Men

  "The Illustrated London News" Magazine, June 3, 1922.

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• Medals are great encouragement to young men and lead them to feel their work is of value, I remember how keenly I felt this when in the 1890s. I received the Darwin Medal and the Huxley Medal. When one is old, one wants no encouragement and one goes on with one's work to the extent of one's power, because it has become habitual.

  Karl Pearson

  Encouragement, Hard Work, Science

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