Young Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Youthful Spirit

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

Sigmund Freud, Psychologist

"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

"I shall not die young, for I am already near seventy: I may die old"

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"No worse fate can befall a young man or woman than becoming prematurely entrenched in prudence and negation"

Knut Hamsun, Author

"There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young"

Henry Ford, Businessman

"The first task of the association must therefore be to form the young members"

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

"Develop your eccentricities while you are young. That way, when you get old, people won't think you're going gaga"

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"People assume I'm out there having this great life, but money doesn't erase the pain. When you're young you barrel through life, making choices without thinking of repercussions. A few years down the line, you wake up in a certain place and wonder how the hell you got there"

Jennifer Lopez, Musician

"I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition"

Chief Joseph, Leader

"I had brought up from Chile a contract agent whose cover was that of a newspaper publisher in Santiago, a young, very talented man, named Dave Phillips, who later on carved quite a career for himself in the agency"

E. Howard Hunt, Criminal

"Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative"

Alfred Adler, Psychologist

"Young people and Indian people need to know that we existed in the 20th Century. We need to know who our heroes are and to know what we have done and accomplished in this century other than what Olympic athletes Jim Thorpe and Billy Mills have done"

Russell Means, Activist

"There's something intrinsically Australian about a bunch of brothers and school friends getting together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as a band at a very young age and all pulling together as mates to make something happen"

Michael Hutchence, Musician

"Now I know why tigers eat their young"

Al Capone, Criminal

"I started out as a very young girl in Hollywood doing westerns portraying a mother with a couple of kids"

Dorothy Malone, Actress

"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

"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

"Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

"I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass"

Maya Angelou, Poet

"Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can"

Cristiano Ronaldo, Athlete

"So I'm a young boy in the 1940s growing up, seeing Ralph Bunche on a regular basis, seeing Duke Ellington on a regular basis. We know that these people are famous. They're living in the same community as we live in. They go to the same stores and shops"

Ed Smith

"Love is the word used to label the sexual excitement of the young, the habituation of the middle-aged, and the mutual dependence of the old"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions"

John Ciardi, Dramatist

"And when I was young, my family was perfectly nice. I write a lot about it, as you noticed. But it was rather limited. I think, I don't think anyone in my family would really feel I'd done them an injustice by saying that. We didn't see many people. There were many books. It was as if I wanted to get away from home"

Christopher Hitchens, Author

"You could not receive a young man in your room; you might be permitted to have him to tea in one of the public reception rooms, but you could accept no invitation from young men to tea or other entertainment without a chaperone from the College"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation"

Dora Russell, Celebrity

"Our society must make it right and possible for old people not to fear the young or be deserted by them, for the test of a civilization is the way that it cares for its helpless members"

Pearl S. Buck, Novelist

"And the young people in the 1960's identified with it immediately, because, I guess the young people had been having years of repression really. They felt that the, you know, after the war everything was very austere, particularly in Europe"

George Martin, Producer

"A youthful American voice isn't particularly challenging - I've been a young American, and they're all around me. I can walk from my house to Barrington High School"

Gene Wolfe, Writer

"If I do a poetry reading I want people to walk out and say they feel better for having been there - not because you've done a comedy performance but because you're talking about your father dying or having young children, things that touch your soul"

Roger McGough, Poet

"All I can say to the young players is, enjoy every moment of it. Just enjoy every moment of it. Your career goes by very quickly"

Mario Lemieux, Athlete

"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption"

Charles de Montesquieu, Philosopher

"Heart of America is a movie I'm very proud of. The young actors are great and the story has impact"

Uwe Boll, Director

"I am not young enough to know everything"

James M. Barrie, Playwright

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