Quotes About Youth

We turn not older with years, but newer every day.

Time-our youth-it never really goes, does it? It is all held in our minds.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

How long can you be cute?

A Jewish man with parents alive is a 15-year-old boy, and will remain a 15-year-old boy until they die.

Our sons, who so easily recognize our errors, and rightly denounce them, will have to confess their own, later on, and they may be as bad as ours, perhaps worse.

It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn.

Someone asked me... how I felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow townsman of ours used to tell - Abraham Lincoln. They asked him how he felt once after an unsuccessful election. He said he felt like a little boy who has stubbed his toe in the dark. He said that he was too old to cry, but it hurt too much to laugh.

The pure, the beautiful, the bright, That stirred our hearts in youth, The impulse to a wordless prayer, The dreams of love and truth, The longings after something lost, The spirit's yearning cry, The strivings after better hopes, These things can never die.

The first years of man must make provision for the last.

We are the people our parents warned us about.

Talent on its own sat gracefully only on the very young. After a certain age it was what you did with it that counted.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Repentance is for little children.

We need to teach the next generation of children from day one that they are responsible for their lives.

It is the duty of youth to bring its fresh powers to bear on social progress. Each generation of young people should be to the world like a vast reserve force to a tired army. They should lift the world forward. That is what they are for.

So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

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

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

I long to put the experience of fifty years at once into your young lives, to give you at once the key to that treasure chamber every gem of which has cost me tears and struggles and prayers, but you must work for these inward treasures yourselves.

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

Shame is an ornament to the young; a disgrace to the old.

In extreme youth, in our most humiliating sorrow, we think we are alone. When we are older we find that others have suffered too.

Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years. People grow old only by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul.