Young Man Quotes

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

Him, Young, Himself

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

Today, Tomorrow, Living

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

Cannot, Young, Reading

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
Ernest Hemingway

Life, Enough, Young

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.
Victor Hugo

Love, Through, Soul

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.
Henry Ward Beecher

Business, Successful, Remember

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Young, Old, Knows

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.
Victor Hugo

Love, Girl, Young

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, Young, Sometimes

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

May, Hero, Young

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

Men, Business, Young

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

Young, Child, Nor

That Seaman is a handsome young man but he spends too much time looking in his mirror rather than at the ball. You can't keep goal with hair like that.
Brian Clough

Time, Goal, Young

This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Justice, Law, Young

Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Sydney J. Harris

Young, Old, Idea

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

Fool, Laugh, Young

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

Character, Important, Young

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.
Billie Joe Armstrong

Angry, Young, Old

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

Great, Men, Woman

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

Angry, Revenge, Before

No young man ever thinks he shall die.
William Hazlitt

Die, Young, Shall

The misery of a child is interesting to a mother, the misery of a young man is interesting to a young woman, the misery of an old man is interesting to nobody.
Eric Hoffer

Mother, Woman, Young

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

Life, Give, Country

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

Life, Women, Him

Poverty is uncomfortable; but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.
James A. Garfield

Best, Happen, Young

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.
Leonard Cohen

Life, Understand, Young

A promising young man should go into politics so that he can go on promising for the rest of his life.
Robert Byrne

Life, Politics, Young

Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act.
Lord Chesterfield

Mind, May, Made

I love writing about my job because I loved it, and it was a particularly interesting one when I was a young man. It was like holidays with pay to me.
James Herriot

Love, Job, Writing

I'm quite an independent person, and I had to be. As a boy and growing into a young man I had to look out for myself. And now I'm very family-oriented. It's a big priority in my life.
Hugh Jackman

Life, Person, Young

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