Quotes About Youth

May your fountain be blessed, and may you rejoice in the wife of your youth:

I saw among the simple, I noticed among the youths, a young man lacking judgment,

Even a young man is known by his actions—whether his conduct is pure and upright.

The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.

A servant pampered from his youth will bring grief in the end.

Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.

For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.

I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.

Woe to you, O land whose king is a youth, and whose princes feast in the morning.

Rejoice, O young man, while you are young, and let your heart be glad in the days of your youth. Walk in the ways of your heart and in the sight of your eyes, but know that for all these things God will bring you to judgment.

So banish sorrow from your heart, and cast off pain from your body, for youth and vigor are fleeting.

Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of adversity come and the years approach of which you will say, “I find no pleasure in them,”

“I will make mere lads their leaders, and children will rule over them.”

The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.

Youths oppress My people, and women rule over them. O My people, your guides mislead you; they turn you from your paths.

Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned away; His hand is still upraised.

Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”

Even youths grow tired and weary, and young men stumble and fall.

So take your stand with your spells and with your many sorceries, with which you have wearied yourself from your youth. Perhaps you will succeed; perhaps you will inspire terror!

This is what they are to you—those with whom you have labored and traded from youth—each one strays in his own direction; not one of them can save you.

No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed.

“Ah, Lord GOD,” I said, “I surely do not know how to speak, for I am only a child!”

But the LORD told me: “Do not say, ëI am only a child.í For to everyone I send you, you must go, and all that I command you, you must speak.

Have you not just called to Me, ëMy Father, You are my friend from youth.