"We see young men who owe us..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
We see young men who owe us a new world, so readily and lavishly they promise, but they never acquit the debt; they die young anddodge the account: or if they live, they lose themselves in the crowd.
More by Ralph Waldo Emerson
More on Youth
“The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.”
“Meek young men grow up in colleges and believe it is their duty to accept the views which books have given, and grow up slaves.”
“My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.”
More on Potential
“Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.”
“Nature has left every man a capacity of being agreeable, though not of shining in company; and there are a hundred men sufficiently qualified for both who, by a very few faults, that they might correct in half an hour, are not so much as tolerable.”
“Begin to be now what you will be hereafter.”