Youth quotes

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

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

I had a soft-spot in my heart for Ronald Reagan, if only because he was a sportswriter in his youth.

I don’t like it when people who are young act like they’re 40. That’s taking too much on. Putting up a shield and trying to act like you’re so mature or whatever – I don’t try to act mature. Some people might say I’m mature for my age, but it’s not something I’m trying to do, you know? I’m just me.

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.

Independence is a heady draught, and if you drink it in your youth, it can have the same effect on the brain as young wine does. It does not matter that its taste is not always appealing. It is addictive and with each drink you want more.

I love tango, and I used to dance when I was young.

I had given up some youth for knowledge, but my gain was more valuable than the loss.

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

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.

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

Genius, when young, is divine.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

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

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

It’s not easy being young. It’s hard to know what to do.

Younger people have greatest fears. Why is that? Because they don’t know the plot. They don’t know their own individual plot… they don’t know what’s going to happen to them.

When I was younger, I felt pressure to become someone else once I became successful.

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

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I’ve never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It’s probably because they have forgotten their own.

When I was younger, I used to have more flair, I used to do more tricks, the nutmegs, the step-overs.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

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

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

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.

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.

Just as the humble, unassuming, assenting ‚O.K.‘ has deposed the more affirmative ‚Yes,‘ so the little cringe and hesitation and approximation of ‚like‘ are a help to young people who are struggling to negotiate the shoals and rapids of ethnic identity, the street, and general correctness.

When I was young I didn’t care about education, just money and box office.

Children are all foreigners.

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

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

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

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.

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

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.

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

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.

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

When you’re young, you’re not afraid of what comes next. You’re excited by it.

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.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

Basketball is booming, and it’s not just an Under Armour standpoint: it’s about the game itself. Kids going out and playing and being inspired by what we do on the court.

The good part about youngsters is that they are so fearless. You want to be like them.

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

Error is acceptable as long as we are young; but one must not drag it along into old age.

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

Though the Jazz Age continued it became less and less an affair of youth. The sequel was like a children’s party taken over by the elders.

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.

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

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

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

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.