Youth Quotes

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

How to win in life:1 work hard 2 complain less 3 listen more 4 try, learn, grow5 don't let people tell you it cant be done6 make no excuses

Advice to my younger self:1 Start where you are with what you have2 Try not to hurt other people3 Take more chances4 If you fail, keep trying

I should have been bolder and kissed her at the end. I should have been more cautious. I had talked too much. I had said too little.

What hurts so bad about youth isn't the actual butt whippings the world delivers. It's the stupid hopes playacting like certainties.

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.

now, never mindthe boy who came out of that reading rooma new man, safe in the hope of what was to comein the summers of his life.

Older men declare war. But it is youth that must fight and die.

Today is not just another ordinary day. It is an opportunity to do, or say, something that just might inspire someone to greater becoming...especially a wayward youth.

Life is a process during which one initially gets less and less dependent, independent, and then more and more dependent.

I am not collarbones or drunken letters never sent. I am not the way I leave or left or didn’t know how to handle anything, at any time, and I am not your fault.

from what we cannot hold the stars are made

My earliest poems appear almost skeletal to me now - it seems I've learned to add meat, muscle and a nice suit of clothes.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more, Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

Saw a little girl touch a big bug and shout, "I conquered my fear! YES!" and calmly walk away. I was inspired.

Extend your "best before" date by living a youthful life.

Wilderness gave us knowledge. Wilderness made us human. We came from here. Perhaps that is why so many of us feel a strong bond to this land called Serengeti it is the land of our youth.

Come out, O lions, and shake off the ancient mysticism and prejudices.

Enjoy without injury, live without loss.

The Creator favors the man who loves over the man who hates. If you teach hatred to your children, one day your child will have that hatred reflected back onto them, or onto you.

The more risk you can take upfront in life, the better off you will be later.

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach. Then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them.

A society that fails to water the life-seeds of its members may be capable of instructing its citizens, but will be incapable of truly educating its children or wholly embracing its youth.

For those of you who may be homeschooled: high school is that four-year asylum where they put teenagers because we have no idea what else to do with them.

From The Corner To The Corner Office - It's Not Just A Book, It's A Lifestyle!

I am still young to keep learning.

We cannot let commercialization of education come in the way of democratization of education.

When you start believing that you are too old to enjoy something, you lose so much joy in your life.

To say nothing is saying something. You must denounce things you are against or one might believe that you support things you really do not.

Don't hang out with people who are:UngratefulUnhelpfulUnrulyUnkindlyUnlovingUnambitiousUnmotivatedor make you feel...Uncomfortable

Life teaches us two important things - we are careless when we are young and by the time we get old, it is too late to be careful!!

Back then we gave it our all, we neither lied nor made mistakes, we didn't fail and didn't do anything wrong.It's just that...TIME has passed and changed it all.

The youth of today will never have the determination and the understanding of yesteryear's youth.

We often don't realize the passing of years until we see them in a child.

Many of the big changes of the next 25 years will come from unknowns working in their bedrooms and garages...

Oh, get off it with that. So sensitive about language. Mate, love, nest, whatever. Point is, it stinks, especially when it goes bad. I get wanting to run away.

I just want to be someone, to mean something to anyone…

Children are like sponges and all they really want to do is latch on to someone that inspires them to learn.

I can’t quite figure out the difference between loving someone and loving things about them.

Loving someone is not tough but the real courage is to be with that person forever.

Our past would dissolve. We would move on from each other and from the ghosts of our youth.

Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.

I don't want to leave.

A young body, a young heart, and endless courage. That last part is the most important. Don’t let anyone tell you any differently. Why do you think we used to send so many kids your age off to war?

That youthful enthusiasm for the Resistance was killed off quick in new recruits, if they were not killed off first.

Oh you, my generation!- we were a lovely lot! Sharp minds- arguing all the time and brittle bodies and even more brittle laughter- and all the time knowing that we were growing up to die.

we developed a firm, practical feeling of solidarity, which grew, on the battlefield, into the best thing that the war produced - comradeship in arms.

Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve And ponder the days…

In my heart, I am American, and I believe I have a free will and can take charge of my own destiny.

Don’t be too busy growing old that you forget to grow up.