Young Man Quotes

562 Young Man quotes by 456 unique authors

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors. — Nathan Bedford Forrest
No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation. — Knut Hamsun
As a young man, even if I was going to see a play or a film by myself, I didn't feel like I was alone.… — Tom Hanks
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
As a young man... you don't know anything about yourself. And add on to that, you're on the cover of magazines. People are interviewing you… — Ethan Hawke
No young man ever thinks he shall die. — William Hazlitt
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… — Ernest Hemingway
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… — James Herriot
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… — Eric Hoffer
Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact. — E. W. Howe
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… — Victor Hugo
The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness. — Victor Hugo
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… — Hugh Jackman
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… — John F. Kennedy
If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people. — Robert Kiyosaki
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… — Doris Lessing
A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. — C.S. Lewis
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… — Jerry Lewis
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
I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment. — Gustav Mahler
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… — Orison Swett Marden
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… — Walter Dean Myers
I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things. — Joe Namath
I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste. — Guru Nanak

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