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Youth Quotes

"When you are young, you have it in you to grab your dreams by the neck and force them all to appear within the well defined and definite realms of reality. This is exactly why wise men believe that it would be foolish to underestimate the power of youth. It’s your younger years that matter most and if you are looking to make the best out of it, there is no stopping you from reaching for the stars. Read on for famous young quotations and sayings. "

Adolf Hitler

He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.

Rachel Weisz

The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is wasted on the young.

Thomas Mann

Democracy is timelessly human, and timelessness always implies a certain amount of potential youthfulness.

Pearl S. Buck

To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth.

I think for every young player of my age, they have to go out on loan. I know there's an U21 league and the Europa League for the youth teams, but it's not the same as playing men's football, when there's a lot more riding on it.

Who I was was not acceptable to black L.A. youth: the way I spoke and my sense of humor. Everybody else had relaxers and pressed hair. I wore my hair in an Afro puff. Nappy. The way I dressed. It was all about name brands at the time in L.A. I had no idea. All those things, I failed miserably at.

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Victor Hugo

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.

Sam Claflin

I used to spend a lot of time at football training, but that time was later spent in amateur acting classes and my local youth theatre, in plays at school and after-school clubs. That filled the void.

Kurt Cobain

The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

John Greenleaf Whittier

Tradition wears a snowy beard, romance is always young.

Lana Del Rey

Fashion is inspired by youth and nostalgia and draws inspiration from the best of the past.

With the arrogance of youth, I thought, 'I don't drink, don't smoke, I don't do drugs, so why would I get cancer?' The week I spent waiting for the result of the biopsy to see if it was malignant felt like the longest of my life.

William Wordsworth

For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity.

Tyler, The Creator

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

Henry James

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Thomas More

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

Chanakya

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Kevin Bacon

Whether it's my age or my misspent youth, sometimes I forget whether I've worked with somebody or not.

Youth is seen as everything. You don't know anything when you're young. It's great being older, just having a more balanced perspective. I wake up and realise that what seemed to be important last year no longer is. I'm increasingly grateful for every day.

Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Cole Sprouse

My brother and I have a profound nostalgia for our youth, and I think people need to come to terms with things leaving and being gone.

Charles Kingsley

Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.

William Lyon Phelps

The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts, and we grow happier as we grow older.

Mick Jagger

People have this obsession. They want you to be like you were in 1969. They want you to, because otherwise their youth goes with you. It's very selfish, but it's understandable.

Chanakya

The world's biggest power is the youth and beauty of a woman.

Soren Kierkegaard

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.

Chris Evans

For the youth, the indignation of most things will just surge as each birthday passes.

Martin Luther

I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.

Jason Bateman

I was just a lot smarter about not getting caught. I mean, I never stuck anything in my arm, but I certainly enjoyed my youth.

Sigmund Freud

If youth knew; if age could.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth comes but once in a lifetime.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn't have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

Wayne Rooney

Football's about the young players, bringing youth team players through to the first team and hopefully getting the best out of them so they can go on to play for their country.

James M. Barrie

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Lisa Bonet

I work with youth offenders in LA, I've heard them speak and see how music manipulates them.

Emma Stone

I always loved acting and improv and sketch comedy and theater, which I did at a local youth theater.

It was in New York, and I've always wanted to film in New York. And the writer was a teenage friend of mine. We did youth theatre together when we were 16 and always had a dream of making a film together. And ten years later, we've done it. So it's great.

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Mignon McLaughlin

Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.

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Ilaiyaraaja

Branding music as 'for the youth' is only an escapist tendency. Preference in music is only about restrictions of the mind.

Prince William

It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.

Benjamin Disraeli

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

Robert Browning

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Pablo Picasso

Youth has no age.

Ian Somerhalder

The most underused, under-appreciated group of people in the world is our youth.

These are such First World problems, but there's a certain claustrophobia to New York. You don't escape in the East Village, but it at least feels full of camaraderie and youth - or full of camaraderie and youth in an East Village that is as full of Chase banks and Starbucks as the Upper West Side, or anywhere else in Manhattan.

Mignon McLaughlin

There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.

Chris Evans

I am just enjoying my youth but I want to settle down eventually.

Aristotle

Good habits formed at youth make all the difference.

Joseph Addison

The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the wars of elements, The wrecks of matter, and the crush of worlds.

I learned how to take other people's mechanisms of promoting their stuff through me as opposed to promoting my own stuff, as far as getting Snoop DeVilles, SnoopDeGrills, Snoop Doggy Dogg biscuits, Snoop Dogg record label, Snoop Dogg bubble gum, Snoop Youth Football League.

J. K. Rowling

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

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

Chris Evans

The past is the past, but if you're overanalyzing or trying to repeat it, you're gonna get stuck. I just had a wonderful youth, and I loved everything about it, so I really try and hang on to it.

Steven Spielberg

From the day I started to think politically and to develop my own moral values, from my earliest youth, I have been an ardent defender of Israel.

Charles Dickens

Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!

John Cena

Hip-hop certainly is in sync with the youth, and every day that passes, I grow less youthful, as much as I have tried to hold onto it.

Rabindranath Tagore

Age considers; youth ventures.

Robert Browning

What's a man's age? He must hurry more, that's all; Cram in a day, what his youth took a year to hold.

Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang

For the parents of the youth of Africa, please give your kids a chance to realise their dreams.

Vincent Van Gogh

If boyhood and youth are but vanity, must it not be our ambition to become men?

Ralph Fiennes

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

In high school, I was on the youth advisory council for the Mayor's Office of Los Angeles, and that was kind of my first experience in the bureaucratic system. We tried to get things done, and nobody was really interested in getting anything done.

Probably the happiest period in life most frequently is in middle age, when the eager passions of youth are cooled, and the infirmities of age not yet begun; as we see that the shadows, which are at morning and evening so large, almost entirely disappear at midday.

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Margaret Mead

As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost.

Leo Buscaglia

All of my youth growing up in my Italian family was focused around the table. That's where I learned about love.

David Bowie

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties.

Benjamin Disraeli

The Youth of a Nation are the trustees of posterity.

Jennifer Connelly

We equate beauty for women with youth, and that's sad. It's a shame it's so hard for so many of us to appreciate the beauty of an older woman and to accept it in ourselves.

Ice Cube

Snoop Dog is the Phil Jackson of youth football coaches. He ain't going to accept nothing but a winner.

Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet almost without exception, the wretched idiot inhabitants of our benighted planet would gulp down this radioactive excrement if it were offered.

Fate

Youth is a lifestyle; it's not a blessing from God. If we treat our bodies as if they are not the most precious things we possess, then obviously we will show wear and tear. We're like a good pair of jeans. If we take care of them, they'll remain classic forever, but if we batter and abuse them they'll look like tattered old rags.

Ewan McGregor

It's important, that spirit of youth, and when you're 16 that can get you kickstarted.

Narendra Modi

The Make in India campaign has taken off and is backed with skill development. It is going to open new vistas for employment for the youth.

Marcel Proust

There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.

Ambrose Bierce

Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

Benedict Cumberbatch

I'm a Prince of Wales Trust ambassador, so I'm all about giving youth an education, a voice and a chance to not take the wrong road.

Monica Bellucci

In France, they call the beauty of youth 'the evil beauty.' You don't have it because of you but because you're born with it. The other kind of beauty is your own work, and it takes forever.

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.

Rob Lowe

Somewhere in my callow, misspent youth, I was smart enough to marry my best friend.

Robert Frost

I go to school the youth to learn the future.

George Bernard Shaw

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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Robert Browning

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Albert Einstein

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

Gavin Newsom

Involvement in the arts engages kids in their community, improves self-esteem, reclaims at-risk youth, and builds the creative skills that are required of a 21st century workforce.

The proud decades of victorious advance of the Juche-oriented youth movement are associated with the invaluable blood and sweat and heroic exploits of the young people who fought self-sacrificingly for the Party, the leader, the country, and the people.

Eric Hoffer

Youth itself is a talent, a perishable talent.

I started a youth center in Houston. The kids would come in and want to learn to box; they wanted to tear up the world, beat up the world. And I'd try to show them they didn't need anger. They didn't need all that killing instinct they'd read about. You can be a human being and pursue boxing as a sport.

Gloria Steinem

Women tend to be conservative in youth and get more radical as they get older because they lose power with age. So if a young woman is not a feminist, I say, 'Just wait.'

John Dryden

Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone.

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James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Tiger Woods

My mother was right when she said that turning pro would take away my youth.

Virginia Woolf

One of the signs of passing youth is the birth of a sense of fellowship with other human beings as we take our place among them.

Our youth deserve the opportunity to complete their high school and college education, free of early parenthood. Their future children deserve the opportunity to grow up in financially and emotionally stable homes. Our communities benefit from healthy, productive, well-prepared young people.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Passion rebuilds the world for the youth. It makes all things alive and significant.

John Cusack

I'm definitely nostalgic about the music of my youth; The Clash and Fishbone and that whole music scene. I still have all that music to this day. There was some great music going on in the late 70s and 80s.

Plato

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Lord Byron

Fame is the thirst of youth.

Ambrose Bierce

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

Joseph Addison

The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.