#young man

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 starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success. ↗

— Orison Swett Marden

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I grew up and I became very successful at what I did as a young man. I became a work addict because this was the only way I could get any relief from this pain. ↗

— Keith Miller

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The most important thing for a young man is to establish a credit... a reputation, character. ↗

— John D. Rockefeller

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The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it. ↗

— William Temple

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A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it. ↗

— Elizabeth Missing Sewell

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There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't. ↗

— John Updike

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You know, this whole thing about Ricky Martin, and how successful that young man is. He's 27, I was 29. ↗

— Robert Conrad

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I studied Japanese language and culture in college and graduate school, and afterward went to work in Tokyo, where I met a young man whose father was a famous businessman and whose mother was a geisha. ↗

— Arthur Golden

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No young man ever thinks he shall die. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

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