Top 650 Youth Quotes

Take a course in good water and air; and in the eternal youth of Nature you may renew your own. Go quietly, alone; no harm will befall you.
John Muir
A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.
Maurice Chevalier
The younger generation is essentially idealistic. This applies to the Iranian youth as well. In addition, the youth in Iran face certain difficulties… the Iranian youth need more freedom. They are struggling for more freedom and democracy. This commands great respect.
Shirin Ebadi
That’s where the future lies, in the youth of today.
Willie Stargell
I think it’s natural for youth to be drawn to newness: The world is still new for them.
David Mitchell
Not less, but more democracy – that is the demand, that is the great goal that we have to prescribe for ourselves, and especially for our youth.
Gustav Heinemann
American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver’s license age than at voting age.
Marshall McLuhan
I have been aware since my youth that I am a Hebrew through my mother, and that is something that has played a subtle but important role in my development.
Amar’e Stoudemire
My first four albums covered the usual youth problems – looking for love in all the wrong places – while the next five are basically about being in your 30s.
Joni Mitchell
To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.
Orison Swett Marden
High and eternal things have little weight with the you

High and eternal things have little weight with the youth.
Ellen G. White
I think, as you get older, you reflect at the silliness of your youth and the stupidity of some of the decisions that were made, and the ego and whatnot, or whatever played into it.
Steve Lukather
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what’s going on – about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
Olympia Dukakis
I came to Moscow when I was 5 years old from Baku. To walk all night in Moscow will bring back my youth to me.
Mstislav Rostropovich
Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.
Jane Austen
I grew up in Austria, and for me real comfort food is Wiener Schnitzel. Wiener Schnitzel and mashed potatoes because it reminds me of my youth… It reminds me when I grow up and it feels very comforting.
Wolfgang Puck
Hockey is no longer a big four. It’s football, basketball, baseball and soccer. Now, I’m not talking MLS. I’m talking COPA, World Cup, men’s, women’s, MLS, youth… and there’s a lot of reasons for it.
Colin Cowherd
Too much youth, hunger, mission, and talent.
Larry Merchant
What you want to worship above youth, I think, is beauty, and beauty is so beyond just appearances after a while. Because you can be with someone who’s good-looking; if they open their mouths and they’re an idiot, then they cease to be beautiful very quickly.
Patton Oswalt
The price of indulging yourself in your youth in the things you cannot afford is poverty and dependence in your old age.
Dorothy Dix
I’ve achieved ‘the American dream.’ I feel it’s my duty to help others achieve their vision, too – especially the youth.
Joe Frazier
I was entirely natural and in many ways I have the same attitude now. I don’t mourn the loss of my youth because I believe you should enjoy what you have while you have it.
Koo Stark
When I was playing with ADO Den Hag in the youth teams at that time I was quite strong because I was used to older people.
Nathan Ake
Since the pharmaceuticals don’t make any money and they control the doctors. If the doctors don’t make any money then all hell breaks loose. In communities like LA and New York they are using a lot of the youth for a test sight.
Afrika Bambaataa
We just need more father figures and more older people to come and school these youth, because there will be a lost generation. And that’s what a gang’s supposed to be, protecting family and doing what you’ve got to do for your loved ones.
Jay Rock
I drink a bucket of white tea in the morning. I read about this tea of the Emperor of China, which is supposedly the tea of eternal youth. It’s called Silver Needle. It’s unbelievably expensive, but I get it on the Web.
Antonio Banderas
The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you’re learning you’re not old.
Rosalyn Sussman Yalow
People equate success with youth. And if you haven’t had a certain amount of success by a certain time in your life, it’s never going to happen. There’s a fear about that. So people start lying about their age really young. I’ve never done that because I think it’s so insignificant.
Jennifer Jason Leigh
The sun stands for energy and youth, which is what I thought the circus should be about.
Guy Laliberte
We must do all we can to empower parents and communities to protect our youth and to encourage healthy behavior free from binge drinking and other forms of alcohol abuse.
Jon Corzine
The youth need to be enabled to become job generators from job seekers.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
Will Durant
When I was playing in the Ajax youth teams – when I was, say, 14, 15 – you started to get all those international youth tournaments. All those English teams came. Well, the English were much further than we were.
Johan Cruyff
The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss and wanting to improve it, i.e. model it after his ideal; in him the view that one must deal with the world according to his interest, not according to his ideals, becomes confirmed.
Max Stirner
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
The unassuming youth seeking instruction with humility gains good fortune.
Joseph Addison
Let not our proposal be disregarded on the score of our youth.
Virgil
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.
Chris Evans
My father is an expatriate American; he fell in love with New Zealand in his youth and never went home.
Eleanor Catton
To me, my house is always recreating what I lost in youth.
Robert Greene
There is always some specific moment when we become aware that our youth is gone; but, years after, we know it was much later.
Mignon McLaughlin
I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as

I love talking to the youth and helping them as much as I can or encouraging them, if I can help them at all.
Sheila E.
A man’s character never changes radically from youth to old age. What happens is that circumstances bring out characteristics which have not been obvious to the superficial observer.
Hesketh Pearson
I grew up loving TV so much. It was such an integral part of my youth, and I was completely an Emmy geek.
Jon Cryer
Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth.
Thomas A. Edison
I think my films kind of walk this line that I’m proud of, that they feel sort of like films of my youth, which were far more commercial.
J. C. Chandor
I was just then going through a healthy reaction from the orthodoxy of my youth; religion had become for me not so much a possession as an obsession, which I was trying to throw off, and this iconoclastic tale of an imaginary tribe was the result.
Laurence Housman
That word ‘prodigy’ has such a derogatory implication. It is used to describe people who are forced to play a lot of concerts very early, people whose audience comes because of their youth, people who are exploited. None of the above really applied to me.
Hilary Hahn
To these ideals which were instilled in me when I was a youth, I attribute in a large degree the success that was mine on the bicycle tracks of the world.
Major Taylor
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.
Bud Selig
Obviously, Jay-Z is one of the greatest entertainers of the world today. Not only is he a remarkable rhetorical genius, he’s also a man of deep sympathy and empathy for those who are lost and vulnerable, but especially under-educated youth of all cultures and stripes.
Michael Eric Dyson
It was helpful to have the confidence of youth that came from a lack of desperation. I thought, ‘If I don’t succeed, I’ll go back to school and study.’
Olivia Wilde
My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
I grew up in the ’90s, so I’ve definitely resurrected many looks from my youth lately, including overalls, jelly shoes, and, of course, Doc Martens.
Devin Kelley
As a Zionist youth leader in the 1940s, I was among those who called for a binational state in Mandatory Palestine. When a Jewish state was declared, I felt that it should have the rights of other states – no more, no less.
Noam Chomsky
Older men declare war. But it is the youth that must fight and die.
Herbert Hoover
Being a good host offsets the deprivation and loneliness of my youth.
Alan Ladd
Keep true to the dreams of your youth.
Friedrich Schiller
We would like to have every middle and high school become a place where there will be lots of examples of youth competence and confidence.
Bill Drayton
I did a lot of touring in my youth, and I learnt very quickly that giving is what it’s all about. It’s about the gift of making an audience feel great and forget their cares, if only for a few hours.
Julie Andrews