Quotes on Youth

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders.

Today's youth are told to get rich or die trying and they really shouldn't take that attitude forward with them.

I'm firmly of the belief that your youth should be spent pursuing your passion - not just slightly, tremulously, haltingly, but unrelentingly, with a vengeance, to the max and then beyond. So dream laughably big - and then take an absurdly huge risk or two.

When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn't anger me.

I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity.

The power of a king lies in his mighty arms; that of a brahmana in his spiritual knowledge; and that of a woman in her beauty youth and sweet words.

I only do this because I'm having fun. The day I stop having fun, I'll just walk away. I wasn't going to have fun doing a teen movie again. I don't want to do this for the rest of my life. I don't. I don't even want to spend the rest of my youth doing this in this industry. There's so much more I want to discover.

Any society that does not succeed in tapping into the energy and creativity of its youth will be left behind.

We must learn to love, learn to be kind, and this from the earliest youth; if education or chance give us no opportunity to practice these feelings, our soul becomes dry and unsuited even to understanding the tender inventions of loving people.

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

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

It is the task of youth not to reshape the church, but rather to listen to the word of God.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

It is in the prime of youth that man sinks into empty phrases and grimaces. It's in this smithy that our maturity is forged.

We don't need youth museums but we do need holy young people.

If the whole world depends on today's youth, I can't see the world lasting another 100 years.

Death, torture and prison are part of daily life for the youth of Iran. They are not like us, my friends and I at their age; they are not scared. They are not what we were. They hold hands and scream: “Don’t be afraid! Don’t be afraid! We are together!” They understand that no one will give them their rights; they must go get them.