Young Man Quotes - Page 35

• If I could get the ear of every young man but for one word, it would be this: make the most and best of yourself. There is no tragedy like a wasted life--a life failing of its true end, and turned to a false end.

  Thornton T. Munger

  Men, Tragedy, Would Be

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• As a young man God blessed me with a special talent to throw a football.

  Dan Marino

  Football, Blessed, Men

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• If you are going to call yourself a Christian - and I don't - then you have to ask yourself a fundamental question, and that is: Whom would Jesus torture? Whom would Jesus drag around on a dog's leash? How can Christians tolerate it? It is unconscionable. It has put our young men and women who are over there, fighting a war that they should not have been asked to fight - it has put them in greater danger.

  Ron Reagan

  Christian, Dog, Jesus

  "The Way We Live Now: 6-27-04: Questions for Ronald P. Reagan". Interview with Deborah Solomon, www.nytimes.com. June 27, 2004.

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• If any young man wants to be a true temperance man let him go and get the delirium tremens, that'll settle it.

  Dan Rice

  Men, Want, Delirium

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• I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Thinking, People

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 1, p. 445 (21 July 1763)

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• I wish that more and more adventurous young men would give up the gun in favour of the camera.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Giving Up, Gun, Men

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• All Fords are exactly alike, but no two men are just alike. Every new life is a new thing under the sun; there has never been anything just like it before, never will be again. A young man ought to get that idea about himself; he should look for the single spark of individuality that makes him different from other folks, and develop that for all he is worth. Society and schools may try to iron it out of him; their tendency is to put it all in the same mold, but I say don't let that spark be lost; it is your only real claim to importance.

  Henry Ford

  Motivational, Real, School

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• I don't Twitter. I can't even remember my password name. I have problems with electronics, so what I've done is hire a young man out of college, whose very fingers are the extension of computer keys, and he Twitters. He does the mechanics, but I very carefully modulate what is said and have used Twitter to publicize stuff, have conversations and instigate competition.

  William Shatner

  College, Men, Keys

  Source: collider.com

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• Those opportunity gaps begin early, often at birth. And they compound over time, becoming harder and harder to bridge, making too many young men and women feel like, no matter how hard they try, they may never achieve their dreams.

  Barack Obama

  Dream, Men, Opportunity

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• War affected my family a lot, and I was quite curious about it. I first went off to war in the early 90's as a journalist, partly out of curiosity and partly because I needed a career. War reporting has been very glamorous and exciting, and everything else that young men like.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Men, Careers

  "Director Sebastian Junger Talks RESTREPO Follow-Up KORENGAL, Helping People Understand the Realistic Effects of War, and More". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 14, 2014.

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• Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

  Barack Obama

  Teacher, Struggle, Fall

  "Petition Response: On Conversion Therapy". Barack Obama's statement on the petition on conversion therapy at the White House in Washington, D.C., obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. April 8, 2015.

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• The wise young man or wage earner of today invests his money in real estate.

  Andrew Carnegie

  Wise, Real, Men

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• To believe that the intolerable crime is to burn a few cars and rob some shops, whereas to kill a young man is trivial, is typically in keeping with what Marx regarded as the principal alienation of capitalism: the primacy of things over existence, of commodities over life and machines over workers

  Alain Badiou

  Believe, Men, Car

  Alain Badiou, Gregory Elliott (2012). “The Rebirth of History: Times of Riots and Uprisings”, p.20, Verso Books

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• What use do I put my soul to? It is a serviceable question this, and should frequently be put to oneself. How does my ruling part stand affected? And whose soul have I now? That of a child, or a young man, or a feeble woman, or of a tyrant, of cattle or wild beasts.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Children, Men, Tyrants

  Marcus Aurelius Antoninus (Emperor of Rome.), Alice Zimmern (189?). “Meditations”

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• A young man who had been troubling society with impalpable doctrines of a new civilization which he called "the Kingdom of Heaven" had been put out of the way; and I can imagine that believer in material power murmuring as he went homeward, "it will all blow over now." Yes. The wind from the Kingdom of Heaven has blown over the world, and shall blow for centuries yet.

  George William Russell

  Blow, Men, Wind

  George William Russell (1920). “The Economics of Ireland and the Policy of the British Government”

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• [The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on ideas of whose truth we are wholly convinced, one that offers us largest scope in working for humanity and approaching that general goal towards which each profession offers only one of the means: the goal of perfection ... If he works only for himself he can become a famous scholar, a great sage, an excellent imaginative writer [ Dichter ], but never a perfected, a truly great man.

  Karl Marx

  Mean, Men, Careers

  "Reflections of a Youth on Choosing an Occupation", 1835.

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• Fain would I wed a fair young man that night and day could please me, When my mind or body grieved that had the power to ease me. Maids are full of longing thoughtsthat breed a bloodless sickness, And that, oft I hear men say, is only cured by quickness.

  Thomas Campion

  Night, Men, Please Me

  1617 Fourth Book of Airs,'Fain Would I Wed'.

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• I do not find it easy to send the flower of our youth, our finest young men, into battle.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Flower, Men, Battle

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.797, Best Books on

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• If I were a young man With my bones full of marrow, Oh, if I were a bold young man Straight as an arrow, I'd store up no virtue For Heaven's distant plain, I'd live at ease as I did please And sin once again.

  Robert Graves

  Men, Arrows, Heaven

  Robert Graves (1920). “Country Sentiment”

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• Health is more than the mere absence of disease, it's the presence of a superior state of well being, a pizzazz, a vitality that has to be worked for each and every day of your life. You cannot get it in a bottle or from Dr. Phil.  Its got to be gotten through diet and execise and rest and recreation and attitudes of mind working all together every day of your life and then, young men can become supermen and old men can become older.

  Dorian "Doc" Paskowitz

  Attitude, Men, Dr Phil

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• If any of you will deny the plurality of wives and continue to do so, I promise that you will be damned…I wish more of our young men would take to themselves wives of the daughters of Zion, and not wait for us old men to take them all; go ahead upon the right principle, young gentlemen, and God bless you forever and ever and make you fruitful , that we may fill the mountains and then the earth with righteous inhabitants.

  Heber C. Kimball

  Daughter, Men, Zion

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• I have always loved music; whoso has skill in this art, is of a good temperament, fitted for all things. We must teach music in schools; a schoolmaster ought to have skill in music, or I would not regard him; neither should we ordain young men as preachers, unless they have been well exercised in music

  Martin Luther

  Art, School, Men

  Martin Luther, Alexander Chalmers (1872). “The Table Talk of Martin Luther”, p.340

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• Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom. GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ, "Felicity", Leibniz: Political Writings Virtue is harder to be got than knowledge of the world; and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered. JOHN LOCKE, Some Thoughts Concerning Education However wicked men may be, they do not dare openly to appear the enemies of virtue, and when they desire to persecute her they either pretend to believe her false or attribute crimes to her.

  Francois de La Rochefoucauld

  Believe, Writing, Men

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• Ah! Do not judge the gods, young man, they have painful secrets.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Men, Judging, Secret

  "The Flies". Play by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jupiter, Act 1, 1943.

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• It may be a very little thing for you to say to a young man the few words that turn him from the way of ruin, and win him back to life and hope. It may be a very little thing to you; but it is every thing to the young man.

  John Bartholomew Gough

  Winning, Men, May

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert (p. 561), 1895.

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