Youth - Quotes

A youth is to be regarded with respect. How do we know that his future will not be equal to our present? - Confucius

A youth without fire is followed by an old age without experience. - Charles Caleb Colton

All of us who are worth anything spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth. - Percy Bysshe Shelley

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. - Cicero

Everyone believes in his youth that the world really began with him, and that all merely exist for his sake. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Figure to yourself what the year would sustain were the spring taken away: such a loss do they sustain who trifle in youth. - Lydia Howard Sigourney

He who has youth and health can attain to anything. - Agathocles

How much better to die in all the happy period of undisillusioned youth, to go out in a blaze of light, than to have your body worn out and old and illusions shattered. - Ernest Hemingway

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté. - Fran Lebowitz

If you're young and talented, it's like you have wings. - Haruki Murakami

In the central place of your heart there is a wireless station. So long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer, grandeur, courage, and power from the earth, from men and from the Infinite – so long are you young. When the wires are all down and the central places of your heart are covered with the snows of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then are you grown old, indeed! - Samuel Ullman

In the days of thy youth seek to obtain that which shall compensate the losses of thy old age. - Leonardo da Vinci

In youth we learn; in age we understand. - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. - W. Somerset Maugham

It is with youth as with plants; from the first fruits they bear we learn what may be expected in future. - Demophilus

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything. - Arthur C. Clarke

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich Von Schiller

Praise youth and it will prosper. - Irish Proverb

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example. - Alexander Pope

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older. - William Lyon Phelps

The days of my youth I remember as nearly always in need of explanation, and not as much fun as advertised in the promotions for board games and breakfast cereal. - Lewis H. Lapham

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. - Alfred North Whitehead

The excesses of our youth are drafts upon our old age, payable with interest, about thirty years after date. - Charles Caleb Colton

The pleasure and sadness of youth is that the speed of its passing is never thought about; and so you say that you will do this or that in a year, in five years, only to wake up one morning to realize that what youthought was infinitely prolonged has ended. - Derek Tangye

The retrospect on youth is too often like looking back on what was a fair and promising country, but is now desolated by an overwhelming torrent, from which we have just escaped. Or it is like visiting the grave of a friend whom we had injured, and are precluded by his death from the possibility of making him an atonement. - John Foster

The tempests of youth are mingled with days of brilliant sunshine. - Luc de Clappiers

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune. - Joseph Addison

The whims of youth break all the rules. - Homer

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity. Benjamin Disraeli

There are new eras in one's life that are equivalent to youth – are something better than youth. - George Eliot

There are not many persons who know what wonders are opened to them in the stories and visions of their youth; for when as children we listen and dream, we think but half-formed thoughts, and when as men we try to remember, we are dulled and prosaic with the poison of life. - H. P. Lovecraft

There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age. - Sophia Loren

There may be no fool like an old fool, but our observation has been that the young fool runs him a pretty close second. - Robert Elliott

We are each gifted in a unique and important way. It is our privilege and our adventure to discover our own special light. - Unknown

We are like snowflakes, each of us unique and exquisitely beautiful in our own way. - Unknown

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. - Franklin Roosevelt

What a wonderful time to be young. You will see events in your lifetime that will test your courage and extend your faith. If you will face the sunlight of truth, the shadows of discouragement and sin and error will fall behind you. - Boyd K. Packer

When you're young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it's already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck. - Haruki Murakami

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are to think themselves sober enough. - Lord Cheserfield

Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them – the one, in fact, which is not a mask. - W. H. Auden

Youth and skill are no match for experience and treachery. - Unknown

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. - Aristotle

Youth as glimpsed by its elders is a story that comes from afar, showing itself as either lovely to look at or a torment to endure. - Lewis H. Lapham

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

Youth is not a time of life – it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigour of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a temperamental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals. - Samuel Ullman

Youth is not entirely a time of life; it is a state of mind. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. - Douglas MacArthur

Youth is the golden period of life, and every well-spent moment will be like good seed planted in an auspicious season. - Eliza Cook

Youth is the season of hope, enterprise, and energy, to a nation as well as an individual. - William R. Willams

Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief. - Nicholas Sparks

Youth, enthusiasm, and tenderness, are like the days of spring; instead of complaining of their brevity try to enjoy them. - Ruckert