Quotes About Youth

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

Absorb youth and you will be absorbed by youth. Take on new influences without fear and you need not fear what is new. Change the people around you by changing the people around you.

Let us teach the young in the school of the fear of the Lord.

Everyday there are people in our world that do absolutely amazing things. People of all ages are very capable of doing tremendous, courageous things in spite of their fear.

Imagine a 15-year-old kid saying, 'I have two moms - it's cool.' I don't fear that at all.

At 16, 17, you have no fear. You don't think or analyze. You just play on automatic. You can get smarter as you get older, but in sports you can be too smart, you know?

Fear of corrupting the mind of the younger generation is the loftiest form of cowardice.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

President Obama is doing the right thing by offering young immigrants, most often in this country through no action of their own, a chance to live and work openly, free from the fear of deportation.

I greatly fear that the universities, unless they teach the Holy Scriptures diligently and impress them on the young students, are wide gates to hell.

The fear of approaching death, which in youth we imagine must cause inquietude to the aged, is very seldom the source of much uneasiness.

I didn't fear old age. I was just becoming increasingly aware of the fact that the only people who said old age was beautiful were usually twenty-three years old.

I've never known fear; as a youth I fought/ In endless battles. I am old, now,/ But I will fight again, seek fame still,/ If the dragon hiding in his tower dares/ To face me

I did my fair share of stupid stuff in high school, like anyone. I had a healthy fear of my parents, and I certainly never wanted to disappoint them. That would be the worst thing I could ever do.

The fear of being an old maid made young girls rush into matrimony with a recklessness that astonishes.

There's nothing like a little fear or hunger to motivate one's inspiration. To take that away from a young artist can offer quite a disservice.

Now we are all fallen, youth from their fear, And age from that which bred it, good example.

The old watch the young with anguish, pain, fear. Above all what each has learned is what things cost, what has to be paid.

Fear is for the old. Lack of it is one of the joys of youth.

As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

The worst mistake you can make when you're young is to give up on yourself and not to challenge yourself for fear of failure.

Make the best use of your golden opportunity now, be naughty when you are young; fly high with the knowledge, because if you don't there will be nothing to reminisce about in the twilight of your life.

Most people grow old, but not everybody grows up.