YOUTH QUOTES EMPOWERING THE YOUTH FOR A BETTER

YOUTH QUOTES EMPOWERING THE YOUTH FOR A BETTER FUTURE

"The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real. " -- India. Arie

"Every generation needs a new revolution”. ~ Thomas Jefferson

Most homeless kids are on the streets because they have been forced by circumstances that cause them to think that they are safer there than in any home they once knew. -- Jewel

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

How could youth better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? ~ Henry David Thoreau

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips, and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life. ~ Samuel Ullman

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. ~ Alfred North Whitehead

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development. Alice Roosevelt Longworth (1884 - 1980)

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect. Anne Rice (1941 - ), "Tale of the Body Thief"

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet and they are growing. Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC), 'Nicomachean Ethics'

Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence. Benjamin Haydon

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature. Dave Barry (1947 - )

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it. Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971)

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. Diogenes Laertius

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference. Eric Schmidt

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen? Evelyn Waugh (1903 - 1966)

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future. Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945)

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. Friedrich von Schiller (1759 1805)

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. George Bernard Shaw (1856 1950)

If youth only knew: if age only could. Henri Estienne (1470 1520)

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life. Herbert Henry Asquith (1852 - 1928)

Praise youth and it will prosper. Irish Proverb

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, 2005

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young. J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, 2003

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. James M. Barrie (1860 1937)

No wise man ever wished to be younger. Jonathan Swift (1667 1745)

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be. Lawana Blackwell, The Dowry of Miss Lydia Clark, 1999

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own. Logan Pearsall Smith (1865 1946)

In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

There's nothing that keeps its youth, So far as I know, but a tree and truth. Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Deacon's Masterpiece, 1858

I am not young enough to know everything. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900), The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1891

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious. P. G. Wodehouse (1881 - 1975), Uneasy Money

In case you're worried about what's going to become of the younger generation, it's going to grow up and start worrying about the younger generation. Roger Allen

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own. Sidney J. Harris

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it. Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata, Animal Crossing: Wild World, 2005

We are none of us infallible --not even the youngest of us. W. H. Thompson

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. W. Somerset Maugham (1874 - 1965), 'Of Human Bondage', 1915

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young. Willa Cather (1873 - 1947)

We have some salt of our youth in us. William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), "The Merry Wives of Windsor", Act 2 scene 3