Early on, when I was quite young and going from job to job, I was foolish enough to sometimes speak to my fellow workers: ‚Hey, the boss can come in here at any moment and lay all of us off, just like that, don’t you realize that?‘ They would just look at me. I was posing something that they didn’t want to enter their minds.
Charles BukowskiA youth, when at home, should be filial and, abroad, respectful to his elders. He should be earnest and truthful. He should overflow in love to all and cultivate the friendship of the good. When he has time and opportunity, after the performance of these things, he should employ them in polite studies.
ConfuciusHistory shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.
Thomas CarlyleWhen I was 16… I worked in a pet store. And they fired me because… they had three snakes in there, and one day I braided them.
Steven WrightWhen you’re young, you’re very reckless. Then you get conservative. Then you get reckless again.
Clint EastwoodThe Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.
Benjamin DisraeliHe that struggles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
Edmund BurkeWhen I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.
Billy GrahamThe surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.
Friedrich NietzscheEducation is hanging around until you’ve caught on.
Robert FrostThese young guys are playing checkers. I’m out there playing chess.
Kobe BryantIn America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
Oscar WildeGood habits formed at youth make all the difference.
AristotleHappy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
Charles DickensThe only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.
Theodore RooseveltThe young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.
AristotleSome old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
Alexander PopeIn my youth, I traveled much, and I observed in different countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer.
Benjamin FranklinGood management consists in showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
John D. RockefellerWhen I write about a 15-year old, I jump, I return to the days when I was that age. It’s like a time machine. I can remember everything. I can feel the wind. I can smell the air. Very actually. Very vividly.
Haruki MurakamiForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouOur modern society – especially in the West, and especially now – reveres youth.
Clint EastwoodWhen I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.
Jackie ChanEverybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldNothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauThe search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI have decided in 2020 to run for president.
Kanye WestProbably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.
Eleanor RooseveltESPN is a great organization to work for.
Lou HoltzI have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.
Jimmy CarterPlayers today moan about the number of games, but when you’re young, you can’t play enough.
George BestWhen I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.
Lady GagaI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodSome folks believe that hardship breeds artistic creativity. I don’t buy it. One can put up with poverty for a while when one is young, but it will inevitably wear a person down.
David ByrneEach day is a little life: every waking and rising a little birth, every fresh morning a little youth, every going to rest and sleep a little death.
Arthur SchopenhauerYouth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
AristotleIn order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.
Salvador DaliWhen your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.
Mark TwainI would say that the Nipsey Hussle ‚Crenshaw‘ release was an example of All Money In creating an artificial scarcity campaign for the physical side of ‚Crenshaw.‘
Nipsey HussleIt is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.
Herbert HooverWell, yeah, people are working in our country. You know what? They’re working two and three jobs, and in our America, people should not have to work more than one job to be able to put food on the table and have a roof over their head.
Kamala HarrisProsperous farmers mean more employment, more prosperity for the workers and the business men of every industrial area in the whole country.
Franklin D. RooseveltI have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.
Sunil ChhetriIf I went back to my 20-year-old self, what I would tell my 20-year-old self is, ‚You don’t know anything.‘ Because everyone, when they’re young, they think they know what’s going on in the world, and you don’t.
Jocko WillinkWhen I was elected President nobody asked me to negotiate between Israel and Egypt. It was not even a question raised in my campaign. But I felt that one of the reasons that I was elected President was to try to bring peace to the Holy Land.
Jimmy CarterI had very good support from Democrats and Republicans all throughout my administration. I had a very high batting average. We added more jobs per year in my four years than any other president since the Second World War.
Jimmy CarterJust as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.
Christopher HitchensEverybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.
Clint EastwoodThe unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph AddisonTo go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.
Sunil ChhetriI’m a working-class person, working with class.
Karl LagerfeldMy son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.
Dolores HuertaMy family was mostly unemployed working class.
Noam ChomskyAlmost everything that is great has been done by youth.
Benjamin DisraeliThe pleasure of work is open to anyone who can develop some specialised skill, provided that he can get satisfaction from the exercise of his skill without demanding universal applause.
Bertrand RussellAfter all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.
F. Scott FitzgeraldFor me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.
A. P. J. Abdul KalamI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouThe good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.
Sunil ChhetriMost people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.
George Carlin