Young Man Quotes - Page 9

• When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.

  Chief Joseph

  Hurt, Heart, Men

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• I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

  Chief Joseph

  War, Men, Buying

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• Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.

  Benjamin Jowett

  Life, Mistake, Men

  Benjamin Jowett (1899). “Letters of Benjamin Jowett”

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• A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living. Today's military rejects include tomorrow's hard-core unemployed.

  John F. Kennedy

  Military, Men, Doe

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.753, Best Books on

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• If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Country, Men, People

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• There's an unconscious bias in our society: girls are wonderful; boys are terrible. And to be a boy, or young man, growing up, having to listen to all this, it must be painful.

  Doris Lessing

  Girl, Growing Up, Boys

  "'I have nothing in common with feminists. They never seem to think that one might enjoy men'". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. September 9, 2001.

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• A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

  C. S. Lewis

  Atheist, Reading, Men

  C. S. Lewis (1966). “Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The young man who's had the Guggenheim fortune behind him all his life - he can hire all the authorities on the subject to teach him how to do a monologue, but he's never going to have the right stuff to pull it off. If he doesn't walk out onstage needing to walk out there, he doesn't have a dream of doing well.

  Jerry Lewis

  Dream, Men, Stuff

  "Jerry Lewis, the Essence of Comedy" by Amy Wallace, www.gq.com. August 21, 2017.

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• The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Motivational, Trust No One, Men

  Ulysses S. Grant, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Stephen Crane, Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln (2012). “The Modern Library Civil War Bookshelf 5-Book Bundle: Personal Memoirs, Uncle Tom's Cabin, The Red Badge of Courage, Jefferson Davis: The Essential Writings, The Life and Writings of Abraham Lincoln”, p.2392, Modern Library

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• I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

  Gustav Mahler

  Crazy, Passion, Men

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• To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Success, Honesty, Opportunity

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• I think the pop industry is still a young man's game.

  Paul McCartney

  Men, Thinking, Games

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• I'm fed up to the ears with old men dreaming up wars for young men to die in.

  George McGovern

  Dream, Peace, Military

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Most of the people who get sent to die in wars are young men who've got a lot of energy and would probably rather, in a better world, be putting that energy into copulation rather than going over there and blowing some other young man's guts out.

  Alan Moore

  War, Men, People

  "The Craft". Interview with Daniel Whiston, "Engine Comics", January 2005.

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• As a young man, I saw families prosper without reading because there were always sufficient opportunities for willing workers who could follow simple instructions. This is no longer the case. Children who don't read are, in the main, destined for lesser lives. I feel a deep sense of responsibility to change this.

  Walter Dean Myers

  Children, Reading, Responsibility

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• I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

  Joe Namath

  Men, Ignorant, May

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• I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

  Guru Nanak

  Children, Men, Caste System

  "Juggling with destiny" by Emma John, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2006.

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• Well, I think they're all basically the same story. Every culture in the world has them. When you strip it down and analyze it, it's the young man or girl who goes through a trial or ordeal and hits a very low ebb but manages to get guidance from a Merlin type figure.

  Liam Neeson

  Girl, Thinking, Men

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• There's a certain kind of behavior in the Arab world that, to me, resembles the way young men behave when there is no significant influence from women in their lives.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Men, World, Way

  Conversation with P. J. O'Rourke, www.theatlantic.com. September, 2004.

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• The historical Woodrow Wilson suffered from numerous complaints which we might today label as psychosomatic. Yet, Wilson did have a stroke as a relatively young man of 39 and seemed always to be ill. He was 'high-strung' - intensely neurotic - yet a charismatic personality nonetheless.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Men, Personality, Historical

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• What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.

  Abbe Pierre

  Zoos, Heart, Fighting

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• It well becomes a young man to be modest.

  Plautus

  Men, Young, Modest

  Titus Maccius Plautus (1874). “Comedies of Plautus”, p.260

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• In various European countries, it is increasingly common for young men to live with their parents into their 30s and even longer. Why not? In the welfare state, there is no shame in doing so.

  Dennis Prager

  Country, Men, Parent

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• A friend often says I'm an old man in a young man's husk. I like that. I am old-fashioned in some ways.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Men, Way, Young

  Interview with Dave Calhoun, www.timeout.com.

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• Cooking today is a young man's game, I don't give a bollocks what anyone says.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Men, Games, Giving

  "My Team". www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2002.

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