Young Man Quotes:

Of all the advantages which come to any young man ... poverty is the greatest.

- J. G. Holland

topic: Adversity, Men, Poverty, Young Man

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

- Om Puri

topic: Men, Feelings, Quiet, Introverted, Young Man

Had I not gone through the ordeal, in more than one country, of landing a job, I would he tempted to lose patience over the number of letters pouring in from fellows who want me or someone else to hand them a job on a silver platter with a guarantee that they will receive the wonderful promotion their talents warrant.... But a tragic number of young men and even older men have a notion that it is not up to them to prosecute the bettering process. They look to someone else to perform the trick for them.

- B. C. Forbes

topic: Country, Jobs, Men, Older Man, Ordeals

Every young man is prone to be misled by the suggestions of his own ill-founded ambition which he mistakes for the promptings of asecret genius, and thence dreams of unrivaled greatness.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.27, Harvard University Press

topic: Dream, Mistake, Ambition, Misled, Young Man

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

- H. L. Mencken

source: H.L. MENCKEN (1958). “PREJUDICES A SELECTION”

topic: Men, Night, Mind, Superior Intelligence, Young Man

Time has been lost and opportunity thrown away, but I am yet a young man, and may retrieve it.

- Charles Dickens

source: Charles Dickens (2016). “Barnaby Rudge”, p.129, Tyché

topic: Opportunity, Men, May, Young Man

When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flown at it to hold it back from flight.

- James Joyce

topic: Country, Men, Soul, Young Man

When a man is born...there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets.

- James Joyce

topic: Men, Trying, Language, Young Man

I will tell you what I will do and what I will not do. I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it calls itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defense the only arms I allow myself to use -- silence, exile, and cunning.

- James Joyce

topic: Life, Art, Believe, Fatherland, Young Man

The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

- James Joyce

topic: Art, Invisible, Creation, Fingernails, Refining

Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience and to forge in the smithy of my soul the uncreated conscience of my race.

- James Joyce

source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 5 (1916)

topic: Life, Reality, Race, Finnegans Wake, Young Man

Young man the simple answer is: land, land and land. No-one gives up land. Ever.

- Munir Butt

source: "Review of Guest Speaker Dr Munir Butt". Yale Daily News, 1994.

topic: Giving Up, Simple, Men, Young Man

A young man who doesn't have the foresight to seek out the girl he wants to be with and actively pursue her, doesn't deserve her.

- Colleen Houck

topic: Girl, Men, Want, Young Man

Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo

- James Joyce

source: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man ch. 1 (1916)

topic: Baby, Boys, Once Upon A Time, Young Man

I did not myself set a high estimation on wealth, and had the affectation of most young men of lively imagination, who suppose that they can better dispense with the possession of money, than resign their time and faculties to the labour necessary to acquire it.

- Walter Scott

topic: Men, Imagination, Wealth, Estimation, Young Man

I learned as a young man that I don't write jokes, but that I can deliver more mundane material and get a laugh. I call myself a humorist.

- Nick Offerman

topic: Writing, Men, Laughing, Young Man

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

- Frank Crowninshield

topic: Men, Genius, Originality, Young Man

The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny.

- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham

topic: Men, Crime, Young, Young Man

Become familiar with your home, but know also about your neighbors. The young man who never went anywhere thinks his mother is the greatest cook.

- Chinua Achebe

topic: Mother, Home, Men, Young Man

I've successfully lobbied and testified for stalking laws in several states, but I would trade them all for a high school class that would teach young men how to hear “no,” and teach young women that it's all right to explicitly reject.

- Gavin de Becker

source: Gavin De Becker (2013). “Protecting the Gift: Keeping Children and Teenagers Safe (and Parents Sane)”, p.228, Dell

topic: School, Men, Law, Young Man, High School Class

It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him [Castro] and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.

- Kevin Costner

topic: Men, Feet, Watches, Castro, Young Man

Me? Beautiful? I'm plain as cardboard. That may be how you see yourself, but the rest of the world would be hard to agree. You shine brighter than the Milky Way. Now there are those who might try to take that from you, but you don't have to give it away. Keep on shining Pattyn. And when the right young man comes along, he'll love you all the more for giftin' this sad planet with your light.

- Ellen Hopkins

topic: Beautiful, Love You, Men, Young Man

Every young man should aim at independence and should prepare himself for a vocation; above all, he should so manage his life that the steps of his progress are taken without improper aids; that he calls no one master, that he does not win or deserve the reputation of being a tool of others, and that if called to public service he may assume its duties with the satisfaction of knowing that he is free to rise to the height of his opportunity.

- Charles Evans Hughes

source: Charles Evans Hughes (1910). “Conditions of Progress in Democratic Government”

topic: Taken, Winning, Opportunity, Young Man

The young man who joins a political party is a traitor to his generation and to his race.

- Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

source: "For My Legionaries: The Iron Guard". Book by Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, 1936.

topic: Party, Men, Race, Young Man

A lot of young men are frustrated and looking for someone to blame.

- Warren Farrell

topic: Men, Frustrated, Blame, Young Man

I was always moved by all of the music. As a young man, Duke Ellington and Lionel Hampton, Count Basie and all these great musicians would come through our town of Memphis. There wasn't adequate hotels, so these musicians - the lady who ran the theater knew my mother, who had a large house, and many of them would stay with us. So that was another great blessing, so I'm always around these great geniuses, and to realize their humanity is such a touching thing.

- Charles Lloyd

source: Source: www.pbs.org

topic: Mother, Men, Blessing, Our Town, Great Musician

For Irishmen, there is no football game to match rugby and if all our young men played rugby not only would we beat England and Wales but France and the whole lot of them put together.

- Eamon de Valera

source: "Judging Dev : A Reassessment of the Life and Legacy of Eamon De Valera" by Royal Irish Academy, 2007.

topic: Football, Men, Games, Young Man

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

- Benedict Cumberbatch

source: "Frankenstein: Man or monster?" by Maddy Costa, www.theguardian.com. January 17, 2011.

topic: Men, Abuse, Able, Young Man

when a great war has cut off the young men of a nation it never can be told thereafter what losses of scholars, poets, thinkers and great designers the country and the world have suffered.

- James Vila Blake

topic: Country, War, Cutting, Young Man

While the death of young men in war is unfortunate, it is no more serious than the touching of mountains and wilderness areas by humankind.

- David R. Brower

topic: War, Men, Touching, Young Man

As a young man, I lived through the Great Depression, when banks failed and so many lost their jobs and homes and went hungry. I was fortunate to have a job at a canning factory that paid 25 cents an hour.

- James E. Faust

topic: Jobs, Home, Men, Canning, Young Man

Young men, I beseech you earnestly, beware of pride. Two things are said to be very rare sights in the world- one is a young man that is humble, and the other is an old man that is content. I fear that this is only too true.

- J. C. Ryle

topic: Humble, Pride, Men, Young Man

I was definitely out of control, but I loved the game of basketball and I played to win and I didn't understand anything less than that. That's why I have a hard time with the young men who can't play because they went to the dentist this afternoon.

- Mel Daniels

topic: Basketball, Hard Times, Winning, Young Man

I didn't get where I am today by being timid, young man.

- Evan Parker

topic: Men, Today, Young, Young Man

It is evident that youth is the first victim of the trend toward bureaucratization. The young men are deprived of any opportunity to shape their own fate.

- Ludwig von Mises

source: Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Bureaucracy: The Economist”, p.90, VM eBooks

topic: Fate, Opportunity, Men, Young Man

Many a young lady does not realize just how strong her love for a young man is until he fails to pass the approval test with her parents. There is no fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear. Of all forms of caution, caution in love is the most fatal. There are only two truly infinite things, the universe and stupidity. And I am unsure about the universe.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Strong, Love Is, Men, Perfect Love, Young Ladies

I don't have to come back, because I am still here! And I'm not an '80s thing. I already worked with my first band back in East Germany and that was soooo '70s, young man. I'm a '70s thing. If I'm a thing at all... and an exciting thing.

- Nina Hagen

topic: Men, East Germany, Band, Exciting Things, Young Man

In a summer marked by instability in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, I know the world also took notice of the small American city of Ferguson, Missouri - where a young man was killed, and a community was divided. So yes, we have our own racial and ethnic tensions.

- Barack Obama

source: "Networks Dodge Obama Linking ISIS Terror, Unrest in Ukraine to Events in Ferguson". www.newsbusters.org. September 24, 2014.

topic: Summer, Men, Europe, American Cities, Young Man

Old men make war, young men fight and die

- Winston Churchill

topic: War, Fighting, Men, Young Man

Senator Obama is a gifted and eloquent young man who can do great things for our country in the years ahead. But my friends, eloquence is no substitute for a record - not in these tough times for America. In the Senate he has not reached across party lines to get anything significant done, nor has he been willing to take on powerful interest groups in the Democratic Party.

- Joe Lieberman

source: "The Lieberman Conundrum". voices.washingtonpost.com. November 13, 2008.

topic: Country, Powerful, Party, Young Man

I know our policies work best to lift young men and women up - regardless of their background - so that they can choose their own path and live lives of dignity, purpose, and meaning.

- Carly Fiorina

source: "Carly Fiorina Answers 12 Christian Post Questions for Every Presidential Candidate". Interview with Napp Nazworth, www.christianpost.com. January 4, 2016.

topic: Live Life, Men, Purpose, Young Man, Purpose And Meaning

If we want to understand the actions of a man in the early 1860's, put yourself back there in his shoes. As a young man he began piloting steamboats on the Mississippi, a job he loved and wanted to do the rest of his life, he said. The Civil War ended traffic on the River and his job. He wrote about it in A History of A Campaign That Failed. He said: "I joined the Confederacy, served for two weeks, deserted, and the Confederacy fell." His attachment to the Southern ideal of slavery does not appear very sturdy.

- Hal Holbrook

source: "Hal Holbrook of MARK TWAIN TONIGHT, Coming to Riverside's Fox Performing Arts Center". Interview with Audrey Liebross, www.broadwayworld.com. January 12, 2015.

topic: Steamboats, Young Man

The first language that I learned was Italian in Italy in the early and middle-'60s and I had to do that to keep up with the young men who were courting my wife.

- Clive James

source: "Summer Series: Clive James, in the face of death". "PM" with Mark Colvin, www.abc.net.au. January 4, 2016.

topic: Italian, Men, Wife, Young Man

Speaking specifically about the memoir, I know that's a criticism that people can have about my work. When I look at the young men's lives, if they're reduced to the worst thing they've done, then it's easy for them to become a stereotype. I keep running into that with newspaper articles that are very short.

- Jesmyn Ward

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Young Man

We need to finally be proactive in enlightening people from Islamic cultural groups. And this applies to immigrants already here as well as to current refugees. The German constitution stands above the Sharia. Schools need to offer classes on gender equality. You also have to offer an alternative to young men with a penchant for violence.

- Alice Schwarzer

source: Source: www.spiegel.de

topic: Islamic, School, Men, Young Man

I've been asked if I'd consider doing Ropes as a straight novel - which is flattering, I suppose - but I can't imagine why I'd want to limit myself that way. There's a certain immediacy we gain from that specific image of Fred being struck by a revelation, of those union workers appearing from the shadows in an alley, of a lonely woman wondering for just a moment if she should make a pass at this young man in her hotel room

- James Vance

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Lonely, Men, Shadow, Lonely Women, Young Man

Once I became a photographer, it stopped me being scared or intimidated by gangs of young men of whatever stripe. Initially, I could hide behind my camera but eventually I came to realize that if I was polite and friendly to them, then they probably would be to me too - a good life lesson.

- Derek Ridgers

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Good Life, Life Lesson, Men, Young Man

I preferred that option, where my camera (and by proxy, me) could look them straight in the eye. The way they reacted to me was always interesting. Sometimes hard young men would reveal vulnerability and a softer side. In the case of teenage girls, I often got a fascinating glimpse of the woman inside.

- Derek Ridgers

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Girl, Teenage, Eye, Proxy, Young Man

I thought, writing is everything, it's so much more important than this or that. If only I could give that young man a stern talking to. Having a child changes things quite a bit.

- Matthew Specktor

topic: Children, Writing, Men, Young Man

I've seen young men in college going into the NFL and then bite the cheese that's in the trap. They'll throw you a pair of Jordans or a moneybag for their services. It's in that moment where most compromise. This business is unforgivable, and you got a bunch of sharks out there. It's mind boggling that universities don't prepare athletes for what they're going to experience.

- Eddie George

source: Source: www.ebony.com

topic: Athlete, College, Men, Mind Boggling, Young Man