Youth Quotes

"Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation."

Pearl S. Buck

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty."

Henry Ford

"It has the power to inspire. It has the power to unite people in a way that little else does. It speaks to youth in a language they understand."

"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."

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."

"When proud-pied April, dressed in all his trim, Hath put a spirit of youth in everything."

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

Herbert Hoover

“Youth is something I never wanna take for granted. I just want to smile and live life.”

“I never want to grow up.”

“There are few things more dishonourable than misleading the young.”

“Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known.”

“The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light.”

“The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything.”

“In reality, I never want to grow up.”

“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 is addictive and with each drink you want more.”

“Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age.”

“I did not have the moments of so-called normal people during adolescence, like going out with friends, enjoying good times.”

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

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing; age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“When you go to war as a boy, you have a great illusion of immortality. Other people get killed, not you. Then, when you are badly wounded the first time, you lose that illusion.”

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

“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.”

“It makes no small difference whether we form habits of one kind or of another from our very youth; it makes a very great difference, or rather all the difference.”

“Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.”