The Best Quotes About Youth

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1. Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Eric Hoffer

2. Young people need models, not critics...

John Wooden

3. A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Wyndham Lewis

4. Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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

Franz Kafka

6. Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. -- Ecclesiastes 11:9

7. Ask the young. They know everything.

Joseph Joubert

8. The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Benjamin Disraeli

9. It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Helen Keller

10. They -- Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

11. Youth has no age.

Pablo Picasso

12. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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

George Bernard Shaw

14. Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Walter Raleigh

15. Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Francis Picabia

16. Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

17. Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Cyril Connolly

18. 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.

Francis Bacon

19. Youth holds no society with grief.

Euripides

20. The most conservative persons I ever met are college undergraduates. The radicals are the men past middle life.

Woodrow Wilson