Time, Aging & Legacy: Youth Quotes

Youth sits at the crossroads of time, where possibility meets the first awareness of change. These quotes consider how early choices echo forward, how growth is paced by seasons, and how identity begins to take root. Explore reflections on energy, curiosity, and resilience, alongside gentle reminders that aging is a companion rather than an enemy. Find perspective on starting legacies with small acts, honoring mentors, and investing attention wisely so that the days of youth become foundations for enduring meaning.

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"Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor"

Euripides, Poet

Euripides

"Youth has no age"

Pablo Picasso, Artist

Pablo Picasso

"We are all geniuses up to the age of ten"

Aldous Huxley, Novelist

Aldous Huxley

"The youth is the hope of our future"

Jose Rizal, Writer

Jose Rizal

"The revolution has always been in the hands of the young. The young always inherit the revolution"

Huey Newton, Activist

Huey Newton

"Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late"

Thomas Sowell, Economist

Thomas Sowell

"As long as any adult thinks that he, like the parents and teachers of old, can become introspective, invoking his own youth to understand the youth before him, he is lost"

Margaret Mead, Scientist

Margaret Mead

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

Natalie Clifford Barney, Author

"Each generation goes further than the generation preceding it because it stands on the shoulders of that generation. You will have opportunities beyond anything we've ever known"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"I think that is a universal adolescent feeling, trying to find your place. The adolescent who is perfectly adjusted to his environment, I've yet to meet"

Roger Bannister, Athlete

Roger Bannister

"Fame is the thirst of youth"

Lord Byron, Poet

Lord Byron

"Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old"

Franz Kafka, Novelist

Franz Kafka

"Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life"

Arthur Rimbaud, Poet

Arthur Rimbaud

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

Henry Ward Beecher, Clergyman

"Like its politicians and its war, society has the teenagers it deserves"

J.B. Priestley, Writer

J.B. Priestley

"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light"

Robert Baden-Powell, Soldier

Robert Baden-Powell

"The reveries of youth, in which so much energy is wasted, are the yearnings of a Spirit made for what it has not found but must forever seek as an Ideal"

William Ellery Channing, Writer

William Ellery Channing

"Childhood is a short season"

Helen Hayes, Actress

"To young to hold on and to old to just break free and run"

Jeff Buckley, Musician

Jeff Buckley

"I was a handful growing up"

Olivia Wilde, Actress

Olivia Wilde

"America's young people deserve more than a mediocre future - and we now have demonstrated proof that President Trump is building a path for our success"

Charlie Kirk, Politician

Charlie Kirk

"There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory"

Marcel Proust, Author

Marcel Proust

"I mean, I'm pretty good in real life, but sometimes people seem surprised that I'm like a normal teenager and wear black nail polish and I'm just a little bit more edgy than the person I play on television"

Brittany Snow, Actress

"If you haven't turned rebel by twenty you've got no heart; if you haven't turned establishment by thirty you've got no brains!"

Kevin Spacey, Actor

"Its OK to grow up, just as long as you don't grow old. Face it you are young"

Jarvis Cocker, Musician

"If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older"

Tom Stoppard, Dramatist

Tom Stoppard

"Live as long as you may, the first twenty years are the longest half of your life"

Robert Southey, Poet

"Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young"

J. K. Rowling, Author

"Yeah, I've had an odd youth, But I wouldn't know the difference if I'd lived it any other way. And I wouldn't change any of it because I quite like what I'm doing"

Estella Warren, Model

"In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play"

Friedrich Nietzsche, Philosopher

Friedrich Nietzsche

"Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age"

Cicero, Philosopher

Cicero

"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope"

Aristotle, Philosopher

Aristotle

"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

Benjamin Disraeli

"Age considers; youth ventures"

Rabindranath Tagore, Poet

Rabindranath Tagore

"Maturity is often more absurd than youth and very frequently is most unjust to youth"

Thomas Edison, Inventor

Thomas Edison

"Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances"

Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect

Frank Lloyd Wright

"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

Charles de Montesquieu

"To look almost pretty is an acquisition of higher delight to a girl who has been looking plain for the first fifteen years of her life than a beauty from her cradle can ever receive"

Jane Austen, Writer

Jane Austen

"I never grew up"

Tracey Emin, Artist

Tracey Emin

"The duty of youth is to challenge corruption"

Kurt Cobain, Musician

Kurt Cobain

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