"Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over……" — Samuel Ullman
"Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity of the appetite, for adventure over the love of ease. This often exists in a man of sixty more than a body of twenty. Nobody grows old merely by a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals."
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Samuel Ullman
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13 Quotes by Samuel Ullman
Samuel Ullman has 13 quotes on this site.
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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy…
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When the aerials are down, and your spirit is covered with snows of cynicism and the ice of pessimism, then…
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Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind.
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Whether seventy or sixteen, there is in every being's heart a love of wonder; the sweet amazement at the stars…
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Maturity is the ability to think, speak and act your feelings within the bounds of dignity. The measure of your…
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Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. We grow old by deserting our ideals. Years may wrinkle…
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You are as young as your self-confidence, as old as your fears; as young as your hope, as old as…
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In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty,…
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When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of…
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Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and turns the spirit back to dust.
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Whether sixty or sixteen, there is in every human being's heart the lure of wonder, the unfailing child-like appetite of…
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Years may wrinkle the skin, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, fear, self-distrust bows the heart and…
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The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.
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Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason…
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In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
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I think mostly it's the adventure that I will have in making the movie. That's what I look for.
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To die will be an awfully big adventure.
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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in…
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Youth is the spirit of adventure and awakening. It is a time of physical emerging when the body attains the…
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