Young Quotes: Inspiring Words for the Youthful Spirit

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

"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

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

Henry B. Adams, Historian

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

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

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

Knut Hamsun, Author

"The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened"

Hector Hugh Munro, Novelist

"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

"You're only young once, but you can be immature forever"

Germaine Greer, Activist

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

Laurence Housman, Playwright

"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

"The first symptom of love in a young man is timidity; in a girl boldness"

Victor Hugo, Author

"It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims"

Aristotle, Philosopher

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

Thomas Sowell, Economist

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

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Writer

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"The idea is to die young as late as possible"

Ashley Montagu, Scientist

"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

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

David Ogilvy, Businessman

"Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt"

Herbert Hoover, President

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

Adam Weishaupt, Clergyman

"Now I know why tigers eat their young"

Al Capone, Criminal

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

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

"This is a court of law, young man, not a court of justice"

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Poet

"The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

"What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing"

Gustave Flaubert, Novelist

"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

"When I was young, I admired clever people. Now that I am old, I admire kind people"

Abraham Joshua Heschel, Educator

"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

"Every act of conscious learning requires the willingness to suffer an injury to one's self-esteem. That is why young children, before they are aware of their own self-importance, learn so easily"

Thomas Szasz, Psychologist

"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

"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

"I am neither a child, a young man, nor an ancient; nor am I of any caste"

Guru Nanak, Philosopher

"When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part"

Laurence Olivier, Actor

"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

"You can't expect to be old and wise if you were never young and crazy"

Slash, Musician

"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

"Bob Dylan is quite a songwriter, and a great singer and musician. I won't bother with comparing myself to him, but I will say that I heard his records at a very young age and I still listen to all his records"

Frank Black, Musician

"That in the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as truth. Man made the truths himself and each truth was a composite of a great many vague thoughts. All about in the world were truths and they were all beautiful"

Sherwood Anderson, Writer

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

Dorothy Malone, Actress

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