An employer of mine back in the ’80s was kind enough to take me on after a rough patch, and it made a big difference in my life that I knew I was the sort of person who showed up on time. It’s a basic tell of character.
Anthony BourdainUpon the farm of the uncle with whom I lived, we did know of the mortgage as some dreadful damper on youthful hopes of things that could not be bought. I do have a vivid recollection that the major purpose of a farm was to produce a living right on the spot for the family.
Herbert HooverRashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.
Marcus Tullius CiceroA 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. KennedyThe duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
Kurt CobainI am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.
Coco ChanelPlayers 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 GagaAn author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
F. Scott FitzgeraldEverybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.
Vivienne WestwoodWhen I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.
Sunil ChhetriI live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.
Albert EinsteinEverybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.
Clint EastwoodJust 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 HitchensI’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.
Margaret AtwoodYouth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard ShawYouth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.
Thomas CarlyleReading, 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 RousseauEverybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThe revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution.
Huey NewtonIf 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 WillinkThe real minimum wage is zero.
Thomas SowellDon’t bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don’t feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
Jim RohnHappy, 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 DickensNothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.
Henry David ThoreauEarly 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 BukowskiEmployers have decided that having the breadth of knowledge that’s associated with a four-year degree is often something they want to see in the people they give that job to.
Bill GatesPassion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.
Ralph Waldo EmersonBut I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it’s all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can’t change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed.
Stephen KingMy son Emilio is running for Congress to continue the fight for social justice.
Dolores HuertaI had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.
Maya AngelouThough the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.
F. Scott FitzgeraldThere is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
Maya AngelouLet no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.
EpicurusWhenever a youth is ascertained to possess talents meriting an education which his parents cannot afford, he should be carried forward at the public expense.
James MadisonWe were told our campaign wasn’t sufficiently slick. We regard that as a compliment.
Margaret ThatcherFor a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.
Richard BransonAs I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.
Marcus Tullius CiceroMy family was mostly unemployed working class.
Noam ChomskyHe only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius CiceroBlessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.
Herbert HooverA man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
William ShakespeareWhen you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.
Sunil ChhetriWell, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren’t supposed to make money!
Joe BidenError is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWhen hiring somebody, I never ask to see a curriculum vitae. I feel that since I didn’t have one myself, it would be a bit presumptuous to ask to see anyone else’s.
Richard BransonChildren are all foreigners.
Ralph Waldo EmersonNot only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.
Franklin D. RooseveltI am making a collection of the things my opponents have found me to be and, when this election is over, I am going to open a museum and put them on display.
Lyndon B. JohnsonTo go to the field and train and understand when days are less, that’s where experience helps.
Sunil ChhetriI have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.
Jimmy CarterWhen 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 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 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 HussleForty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.
Hosea BallouThe search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.
Lana Del ReyWhen you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.
Sunil ChhetriWork is a necessary evil to be avoided.
Mark TwainThe world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.
Chanakya