Quotes about Youth
Ah Fate, cannot a man Be wise without a beard? East, West, from Beer to Dan, Say, was it never heard That wisdom might in youth be gotten, Or wit be ripe before 't was rotten?
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
— Barack Obama
There are no college courses to build up self-esteem or high school or elementary school. If you don't get those values at a early age, nurtured in your home, you don't get them.
— Bishop TD Jakes
A father is an image of a young man's destiny, a living testimony of what time may bring to pass.
— Bishop TD Jakes
Our instincts may have even guided us to hide parts of ourselves in order to keep them alive when we were younger.
— Bishop TD Jakes
There is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
We were still at the age when girls are years older than guy, and the guys grow up by doing their best when the girls need them to.
— Tana French
The first album I bought was the Spice Girls, ha ha.
— Rita Ora
one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty?one that everything afterward savors of anti?climax.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
— Mark Twain
Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation.
— Samuel Johnson
Like all very handsome men who die tragically, he left not so much a character behind him as a legend. Youth and death shed a halo through which it is difficult to see a real face.
— Virginia Woolf