The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Do the duty which lies nearest to you, the second duty will then become clearer.

Many shoulder heavy burdens of righteous responsibility which, on occasion, seem so difficult to bear. I have heard those challenges termed impossible.

India is a geographical term. It is no more a united nation than the Equator.

The decision to serve a mission will shape the spiritual destiny of the missionary, his or her spouse, and their posterity for generations to come. A desire to serve is a natural outcome of one’s conversion, worthiness, and preparation.

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

When Southern people tell us they are no more responsible for the origin of slavery than we are, I acknowledge the fact. When it is said that the institution exists, and that it is very difficult to get rid of it in any satisfactory way, I can understand and appreciate the saying.

When you are younger, you want to do everything, and you go haywire.

England is a nation of shopkeepers.

Remember upon the conduct of each depends the fate of all.

My father, who was jailed for stealing on more than one occasion, just abandoned his fatherly responsibilities and disappeared. I grew up working from the time I was nine years of age. Money was a big issue everywhere I lived.

When I was 18, I thought that, to be a romantic, you couldn’t live past 30.

The buck stops here!

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Happy, 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!

I lived a sloppy life. So I took very small increments in my life. I started making my bed. I started cleaning my room. There were dishes in the sink. It started off with doing small house chores. I saw that the yard needed to be mowed. So instead of being told it needed to be mowed, I would mow it.

Understand, when you eat meat, that something did die. You have an obligation to value it – not just the sirloin but also all those wonderful tough little bits.

To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.

In the usual progress of things, the necessities of a nation in every stage of its existence will be found at least equal to its resources.

The happiest people in the world are those who feel absolutely terrific about themselves, and this is the natural outgrowth of accepting total responsibility for every part of their life.

Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else’s affairs.

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 search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

America is a nation that conceives many odd inventions for getting somewhere but it can think of nothing to do once it gets there.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

My parents were dealing with evictions and repossessions and electricity getting shut off, and I just realized that I had to get it together.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

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.

The nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one.

If you want to cut your own throat, don’t come to me for a bandage.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The upward course of a nation’s history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you’ve got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I’m not sure any country, either the United States or I don’t hear of anyone else, who’s willing to take on that responsibility.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world.

I know I have a responsibility to the fans.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

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.

It’s not that every single thing that happens on Facebook is gonna be good. This is humanity. People use tools for good and bad, but I think that we have a clear responsibility to make sure that the good is amplified and to do everything we can to mitigate the bad.

No, we don’t own our children. Our parental privilege is to love them, to lead them, and to let them go.

A man builds a fine house; and now he has a master, and a task for life: he is to furnish, watch, show it, and keep it in repair, the rest of his days.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I think if someone gets kicked in the face it is their fault – they watched the foot come towards their face.

Democracy is the process by which people choose the man who’ll get the blame.

Respect the burden.

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

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

We are a nation of communities… a brilliant diversity spread like stars, like a thousand points of light in a broad and peaceful sky.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

Always do everything you ask of those you command.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

Everybody is idealistic when you’re a kid.

Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.

Youth is wasted on the young.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.