Words matter. These are the best Young Men Quotes from famous people such as Tracy Morgan, Tony Campolo, Bill Ward, Frank D. Gilroy, James Buchan, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I deal with my sons like young men. If they have a problem with something, they come to me. I am the type of dad that will drop everything I am doing for them, and always tell them to talk to me about it.
A Christian school should be a place where young men and young women go through a period of spiritual formation and development so that they come out incredibly more proficient at living out their calling than they would have been had they not gone to school.
Sweet Leaf’ and ‘Iron Man’ were the rallying points for all the young men coming back from Vietnam.
Young men who have been away, been to war, they are different when they come home.
Saudi Arabia operates according to the belief that God made young men and women so utterly and completely without self-control that they must be physically segregated every moment of the day and night.
When I’m an old lady, I’m going to have my pick of the young men. They’ll be like, ‘She’s Miss Mary Jane!’ The young boys will think I’m a hot old lady.
We have the power, as lawmakers, to find ways to support our young men and identify solutions to the hardships they regularly experience.
It’s our responsibility as young men to set a new precedent for the next generation.
When my young men began the killing, my heart was hurt.
Who can wonder at the attractiveness… of the bar, for our ambitious young men, when the highest bribes of society are at the feet of the successful orator?
Let me make it clear that the Youth Employment Opportunities Act of 1961 is not primarily concerned with delinquency prevention. Rather, it is designed to help all types of young men or women who suffer deficiencies of training or opportunity which keep them unemployed.
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.
When I got in this profession, as a young guy, as a college coach at San Jose State, I knew right then that I had a passion to do this, to touch people’s lives, to develop young men in the game of football.
I think it’s a not-uncommon experience for gay boys, young men, and even older men to spend a lot of time in the company of women.
The one place I never felt at all comfortable in the military was in private circles of conversation. There’s a tendency, especially among young men, to objectify and denigrate women behind closed doors.
But the problem is that when I go around and speak on campuses, I still don’t get young men standing up and saying, ‘How can I combine career and family?’
You’ve gotta be careful. People don’t want to be reminded of Vietnam and Korea. We lost thousands of fine young men and didn’t win either of those wars. Nobody wants to hear about them. ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘The Deerhunter’ weren’t box-office hits.There was too much violence and blood and gore.
We’re living in a time, unfortunately, where, you know, a lot of young men, particularly young men of color, being raised by single mothers. And their mothers so desperately want to connect with them, but I found, in talking with a lot of young men, that sometimes it’s difficult.
Young men think old men are fools; but old men know young men are fools.
When I was growing up in Nigeria – and I shouldn’t say Nigeria, because that’s too general, but in Afikpo, the Igbo part of the country where I’m from – there were always rites of passage for young men. Men were taught to be men in the ways in which we are not women; that’s essentially what it is.
Young men are obsessed with their dads, and they remain obsessed if the dad is not around. Remember that there was a lot of discussion about how George W. Bush might have invaded Iraq to atone for the failures of his dad.
I saw Mussolini tirelessly contemplate a parade of thousands of young men.
The game business arose from computer programs that were written by and for young men in the late 1960s and early 1970s. They worked so well that they formed a very lucrative industry fairly quickly. But what worked for that demographic absolutely did not work for most girls and women.
We encourage failure among young men; we celebrate it… It’s a badge of honour for a man. Yet attach those same words and experiences to a woman, and society writes her off.
It’s something I take very seriously as a commander: the lives of our young men and women.
Brave people such as my Uncle Leonard were willing to put themselves at risk to preserve what they valued in life and young men and women today continue to make those sacrifices for our country.
Team Griffin Foundation is a foundation trying to inspire young men and women to give them organization, give them something to have, kind of like when I was growing up. I had people who were supporting me, giving me the right tools that I needed to be able to achieve my dreams.
The young men, they look to me for a story they can get nowhere else, a challenging risky story.
I would do nearly anything for a laugh, to tell the truth. And I’m a particular favourite with young men with earrings.
Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.
All young men should have a certain time in the Army, instead of going running around wild for a few years after school. They would learn discipline and they would learn a good trade. It would be a good opportunity.
Early British pop was helped tremendously by the writing of Bob Dylan who had proved you could write about political and quite controversial subjects. Certainly what we did followed on from what was happening with the angry young men in the theatre.
Many Muslim parents are authoritarian, which leaves young men and women with limited spaces to express themselves. Self-expression and autonomy are regarded as symptoms of ‘Westernisation.’
What young men nowadays don’t realise is that ballroom dancing can be such a source of enjoyment.
Young men often seek tests and trials, and to me, BUD/S training – basic underwater demolition/SEAL – seemed like the ultimate test.
Young men, more than anything, need good role models in their lives.
I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.
Young men should prove theorems, old men should write books.
I really hope that there are more young men coming to terms with the fact that they feel things and it’s OK to feel things and to talk about how they feel about things. That’s not weak. It’s brave and strong and good.
The young men in the inner city are without guidance, robbing and shooting each other with no remorse… Our system is crazy because we’re planning to fail. Everybody needs something to grasp on to.
My first encounter with Buddhist dharma would be in my early 20s. Like most young men, I was not particularly happy.
If we want to raise the aspirations of young men, we should be praising their achievements, not talking them down.
My thinking has always been that the worst problem we have with regard to lack of inclusion is the terribly low labor force participation rates and terribly high unemployment rates of young men, especially young men in ethnic minority groups and, in particular, young black men.
The truth is that those who join gangs – more often than not they are young men in their later teens – often do come from the most difficult family backgrounds, from an environment where they feel neglected and unwanted. Gang membership can bring a perverse sense of belonging which they may not have ever got at home.
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
It’s true that many of the leaders who started at non-elite colleges as undergrads later attended prominent graduate schools in law, business, medicine, and so on. But the point is that they found their own way there – as young men and women in their early 20s, not teenagers pressed into action by parents and peers.
It is my position that allowing gays and lesbians to serve openly would be the right thing to do. No matter how I look at this issue, I cannot escape being troubled by the fact that we have in place a policy which forces young men and women to lie about who they are in order to defend their fellow citizens.
Testicular cancer occurs in young men, just the people who don’t bother much about their health.
Even though the money is great and the fame is great, you still have a lot of disenfranchised young men that are participating in the NFL that are not very happy. A lot of them are very bitter. A lot them are very angry. So many of them have had no fathers and no home life, and basically, no education.
Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.
All young men can relate to that moment where they have to – or, rather, attempt to – stand up to their dads with their own ideas of what they want for their own lives.
