This collection holds 298 young man quotes, drawn from writers, leaders, artists and thinkers across the QuoteForever archive. The most quoted voices here are Horace Greeley, William Hazlitt and Plautus.

They are ordered so that each author has a say before anyone repeats, which means the first page gives you the range of the topic rather than one writer's back catalogue.

Use the grid and list views to change how much of each quote you see, follow an author's name to read everything else they said, or open a quote on its own page to copy it, share it, or turn it into a picture quote.

Go west, young man.

No young man ever thinks he shall die.

It well becomes a young man to be modest.

A young man is a theory, an old man is a fact.

As a young man, I experimented with everything.

I remember that Scott Jacoby was a nice young man.

I used to be very athletic when I was a young man.

By the time I was a young man, I was pretty independent.

A young man without ambition is an old man waiting to be.

Young man, young man, your arm's too short to box with God.

I was a confused young man. I didn't know what I wanted to be.

Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.

I've got no respect for any young man who won't join the colors.

I was a very serious young man, very committed to saving the world.

To arrive in a city like Milan as a young man was a huge challenge.

Oxford is the most dangerous place to which a young man can be sent.

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

I didn't start out angry. I started out a young man wanting adventure.

It is bad for a young man to sin; but it is worse for an old man to sin.

I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste.

The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness.

Jason McDermott can be the most ingratiating young man: a born politician.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Some people say I'm a young man in a hurry. Well, guess what: they're right.

As a child I liked to watch movies. As a young man I wanted to work in films.

A relatively young woman is perceived as younger than a relatively young man.

I'm a very humble young man. I've always had to work for everything that I had.

I was a very naive young man, and I may still be ignorant about a lot of things.

If you can ask a young man to give his life for his country, you can lead people.

If you really want to know what motivated me as a young man, it was a fear of death.

Any young man who is unmarried at the age of twenty one is a menace to the community.

And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

I wrote as a very angry young man, believing he was going to be killed in a world war.

Young man, the secret of my success is that at early age I discovered that I was not God.

I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

When I came to London as a young man, I was very excited by it and that's never gone away.

The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool.

As a young man, I was very introverted and quiet, but with a lot of intensity and feelings.

I've done a lot of Shakespeare as a young man; I was involved with Shakespeare and Company.

If I'd had fame early on, I'd have been able to abuse it in the way that a young man should.

I was very famous as a young man and I celebrated both the good and bad times with drinking.

I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

Watching a Kirk Douglas movie, 'Young Man With A Horn,' made me want to be a trumpet player.

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

A young man who is here speaks the Panis language, and in many other respects, is preferable.

As a young man, I think I was in a bit of the revenge business for too many years of my life.

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part.

As a very young man growing up in Texas, usually I got a shotgun or cowboy boots for Christmas.

Share This Page