Quotes about Youth
A youth is to be regarded with respect.
— Confucius
The old-fashioned respect for the young is fast dying out.
— Oscar Wilde
How can you respect the world when you see it's being run by a bunch of kids turned old?
— John Updike
When I was doing 'This Boy's Life' I wanted to be as old as Robert DeNiro and as experienced as him and have the same respect as he did in that movie.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth. The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker. They are more easily excited; they are more violent and apparent, but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in mature life.
— Zig Ziglar
Most young people have tremendous respect for older people's views.
— Dennis Prager
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
— Euripides
I urge you to spend your youth profitably in study and virtue.... In brief, let me see in you an abyss of knowledge.
— Francois Rabelais
It is time for a new generation of leadership.
— John F. Kennedy
We need to awaken the next generation to understand that we are all change-makers. The nation is not as strong as its government but its next generation
— Nick Vujicic
You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning.
— Richard Baxter
You know what makes me feel old? When I see girls who are 20-something, or the new crop of actresses, and I think, Aren't we kind of the same age? You lose perspective. Or being offered the part of a woman with a 17-year-old child. It's like, "I'm not old enough to have a 17-year-old!" And then you realize, well, yeah, you are.
— Jennifer Aniston