Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age.

If 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.

I have met 18 million youth, and each wants to be unique.

Some animals are cunning and evil-disposed, as the fox; others, as the dog, are fierce, friendly, and fawning. Some are gentle and easily tamed, as the elephant; some are susceptible of shame, and watchful, as the goose. Some are jealous and fond of ornament, as the peacock.

Upon 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.

I don’t have this feeling that 70 is really old.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

I was a bit challenged when I was younger to stay on the right path.

NASA has been one of the most successful public investments in motivating students to do well and achieve all they can achieve. It’s sad that we are turning the programme in a direction where it will reduce the amount of motivation and stimulation it provides to young people.

For me, there are two types of people: the young and the experienced.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

To be renewed is everything. What more could one ask for than to have one’s youth back again?

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

Some 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.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

Modesty is not only an ornament, but also a guard to virtue.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

I have been a youngster and I know speeches are boring.

Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

I have 22 grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and they keep me young.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.

In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it’s a sure sign you’re getting old.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

When 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.

The real ornament of woman is her character, her purity.

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

The world’s biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

When I was young I felt really overwhelmed and confused by the desire not to end up in an office, doing something I didn’t believe in.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

You hear doom and gloom about the Internet ruining young people’s command of English – that’s nonsense.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

When I was younger, I was testing myself and questioning everything, but now it’s less about that and more about these are the years of my life with my family.

The harvest of old age is the recollection and abundance of blessing previously secured.

It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims.

Each 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.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

It is the youth who must inherit the tribulation, the sorrow… that are the aftermath of war.

In 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.

Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.

I never heard of an old man forgetting where he had buried his money! Old people remember what interests them: the dates fixed for their lawsuits, and the names of their debtors and creditors.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

A 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.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

Lord save us all from old age and broken health and a hope tree that has lost the faculty of putting out blossoms.

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young.

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can’t it happen to me? I’m not worried I’m young – it’s an incentive to do the best I can.

We will explore the mysteries of science and harness the power of technology and innovation. We will realise the opportunities of the digital world. Our youth will learn more from – and with – each other.