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"We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity"

Benjamin Disraeli, Statesman

"The Leadership Training Institute of America trains and equips young men and women to be leaders with high standards of personal morality and integrity"

Michael Burgess, Congressman

"I really learned the power of the tube on Sesame Street and how it can influence a very young mind"

Ruth Buzzi, Actress

"The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"

Aristotle, Philosopher

"When you are young you take the kindness people show you as your right"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"The trouble with young writers is that they are all in their sixties"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young"

W. Somerset Maugham, Playwright

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'always do what you are afraid to do.'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

"When a nation's young men are conservative, its funeral bell is already rung"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Whoever neglects the arts when he is young has lost the past and is dead to the future"

Sophocles, Author

"Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality"

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"It is the malady of our age that the young are so busy teaching us that they have no time left to learn"

Eric Hoffer, Writer

"The young man who has not wept is a savage, and the older man who will not laugh is a fool"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"America is a young country with an old mentality"

George Santayana, Philosopher

"To remain young one must change"

Alexander Chase, Journalist

"I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry; that is, prose = words in their best order; - poetry = the best words in the best order"

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Poet

"Whom the gods love dies young"

Menander, Poet

"The good die young, because they see it's no use living if you have got to be good"

John Barrymore, Actor

"I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old"

Robert Frost, Poet

"Girls we love for what they are; young men for what they promise to be"

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state"

William James, Philosopher

"When I was young, poverty was so common that we didn't know it had a name"

Lyndon B. Johnson, President

"I believe that history might be, and ought to be, taught in a new fashion so as to make the meaning of it as a process of evolution intelligible to the young"

Thomas Huxley, Scientist

"Joyfulness keeps the heart and face young. A good laugh makes us better friends with ourselves and everybody around us"

Orison Swett Marden, Writer

"Those whom the gods love grow young"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"I want to be an artist that everyone can relate to, that's young, happy and fun"

Britney Spears, Musician

"A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head"

David Lloyd George, Statesman

"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman"

Billie Jean King, Athlete

"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, Writer

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"In America the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible; and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five"

Thomas Carlyle, Writer

"Youth is wasted on the young"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work"

George Bernard Shaw, Dramatist

"When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything"

Oscar Wilde, Dramatist

"Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well"

Dwight D. Eisenhower, President

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