Inspirational Quotes on Youth

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“Memory tempers prosperity, mitigates adversity, controls youth, and delights old age.”

“Time is the rider that breaks youth.”

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

“I have met so many young people who do not see the church as relevant and do not consider the Bible a real book of history that can be trusted.”

“American youngsters tend to live as if adolescence were a last fling at life, rather than a preparation for it.”

“Really, a young Atheist cannot guard his faith too carefully. Dangers lie in wait for him on every side.”

“When we are out of sympathy with the young, then I think our work in this world is over.”

“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.”

“I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth.”

“No education can be of true advantage to young women but that which trains them up in humble industry, in great plainness of living, in exact modesty of dress.”

“A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.”

“How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.”

“Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.”

“If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old.”

“Young blood must have its course, lad, and every dog its day.”

“When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.”

“Among all the accomplishments of youth there is none preferable to a decent and agreeable behavior among men, a modest freedom of speech, a soft and elegant manner of address, a graceful and lovely deportment, a cheerful gravity and good-humor, with a mind appearing ever serene under the ruffling accidents of human life.”

“The flower of youth never appears more beautiful than when it bends toward the sun of righteousness.”

“Everybody hates a prodigy, detests an old head on young shoulders.”