Youth is the time of your life when you are young, full of spirit and curiosity about everything. They also say that young people are the backbone of every country and the future of every nation. May these quotes about youth help you understand their role in every country's development, molding the next generation into great individuals.
1. “We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt
2. “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” – Salvador Dali
3. “Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindset of youth today.” – Graça Mache
4. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes
5. “Young people need models, not critics.” – John Wooden
6. “Don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.” – Bob Dylan
7. “Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
8. “A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.” – Wyndham Lewis
9. “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are.” – John Denver
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10. “Youth is the trustee of prosperity.” – Benjamin Disraeli
11. “Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.” – Anonymous
12. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” – Karl Lagerfeld
13. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
14. “Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.” – Jean Cocteau
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15. “The passions of the young are vices in the old.” – Joseph Joubert
16. “Ask the young. They know everything.” – Joseph Joubert
17. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” – J. K. Rowling
18. “Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.” – Thomas Carlyle
19. “It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.” – Helen Keller
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20. “You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.” – Joe E. Lewis
21. “Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
22. “Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.” – Natalie Clifford Barney
23. “The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.” – Anonymous
24. “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
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25. “Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.” – Euripides
26. “Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” – Herbert Henry Asquith
27. “If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.” – Clara Schumann
28. “Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.” – Euripedes
29. “The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.” – T. S. Eliot
30. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” – Adolf Hitler
More Quotes on Youth
31. “The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.” – Alfred North Whitehead
32. “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” – Mary Mcleod Bethune
33. “Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.” – Henry David Thoreau
34. “Youth should be a savings bank.” – Sophie Swetchine
35. “Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.” – Anita Brookner
36. “Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.” – Carey Williams
37. “Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton
38. “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.” – Luella F. Phean
39. “It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.” – Mark Twain
40. “Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.” – Edgar Watson Howe
41. “Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.” – John Milton
42. “A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.” – Mary Little
43. “Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” – Francis Bacon
44. “Youth comes but once in a lifetime.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
45. “The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
46. “Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
47. “Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” – Fran Lebowitz
48. “How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
49. “Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” – Nicholas Sparks
50. “Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the lord of life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.” – Oscar Wilde
51. “Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.” – Francis Picabia
52. “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” – William Shakespeare
53. “In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.” – Oscar Wilde
54. “It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.” – Jon Krakauer
55. “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover
56. “The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” – Edmund Burke
57. “Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
58. “Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.” – Rick Riordan
59. “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” – Milan Kundera
60. “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.” – W. Somerset Maugham
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2. “At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.” – Salvador Dali
3. “Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mindset of youth today.” – Graça Mache
4. “The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.” – Diogenes
5. “Young people need models, not critics.” – John Wooden
6. “Don't criticize what you can't understand, your sons and your daughters are beyond your command.” – Bob Dylan
7. “Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.” – Frank Lloyd Wright
8. “A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.” – Wyndham Lewis
9. “I would so much like young people to have a sense of the gift that they are.” – John Denver
11. “Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.” – Anonymous
12. “Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born.” – Karl Lagerfeld
13. “The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible, and achieve it, generation after generation.” – Pearl S. Buck
14. “Youth is certain what it rejects before it knows what it will accept.” – Jean Cocteau
16. “Ask the young. They know everything.” – Joseph Joubert
17. “Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.” – J. K. Rowling
18. “Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.” – Thomas Carlyle
19. “It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.” – Helen Keller
21. “Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.” – George Bernard Shaw
22. “Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.” – Natalie Clifford Barney
23. “The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.” – Anonymous
24. “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
26. “Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.” – Herbert Henry Asquith
27. “If I have known much trouble in my youth, I have also known much joy.” – Clara Schumann
28. “Who so neglects learning in his youth loses the past and is dead to the future.” – Euripedes
29. “The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.” – T. S. Eliot
30. “He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future.” – Adolf Hitler
More Quotes on Youth
31. “The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.” – Alfred North Whitehead
32. “We have a powerful potential in our youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends.” – Mary Mcleod Bethune
33. “Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.” – Henry David Thoreau
34. “Youth should be a savings bank.” – Sophie Swetchine
35. “Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.” – Anita Brookner
36. “Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.” – Carey Williams
37. “Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.” – Edward Bulwer Lytton
38. “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.” – Luella F. Phean
39. “It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise.” – Mark Twain
40. “Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.” – Edgar Watson Howe
41. “Childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.” – John Milton
42. “A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.” – Mary Little
43. “Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.” – Francis Bacon
44. “Youth comes but once in a lifetime.” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
45. “The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
46. “Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
47. “Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.” – Fran Lebowitz
48. “How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams with its illusions, aspirations, dreams! Book of Beginnings, Story without End, Each maid a heroine, and each man a friend!” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
49. “Youth offers the promise of happiness, but life offers the realities of grief.” – Nicholas Sparks
50. “Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to life. The old are in life's lumber-room. But youth is the lord of life. Youth has a kingdom waiting for it. Every one is born a king, and most people die in exile.” – Oscar Wilde
51. “Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.” – Francis Picabia
52. “A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.” – William Shakespeare
53. “In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.” – Oscar Wilde
54. “It is easy, when you are young, to believe that what you desire is no less than what you deserve, to assume that if you want something badly enough, it is your God-given right to have it.” – Jon Krakauer
55. “Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.” – Herbert Hoover
56. “The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.” – Edmund Burke
57. “Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.” – Logan Pearsall Smith
58. “Young people don't always do what they're told, but if they can pull it off and do something wonderful, sometimes they escape punishment.” – Rick Riordan
59. “There is a certain part of all of us that lives outside of time. Perhaps we become aware of our age only at exceptional moments and most of the time we are ageless.” – Milan Kundera
60. “It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.” – W. Somerset Maugham
Share these Quotes about Youth Changing the World with your friends, family, and loved ones to inspire them as well.