Childhood is surprising. The youth are outraged. Only summer gives us peaceful balance and indifference.
And to a girl’s heart, what is young beauty, what is Cossack glory, when a Cossack does not rush to her?
I was born in 1894, which I still regret. I should have been born in 1904. I would be ten years younger now.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Teach to respect, honor and love the human individuality, educate young people to respect their elders, at least their own parents, and cemeteries will beautify themselves.
— Oleksandr Dovzhenko
Unite with a church that has a real active interest in the salvation of the lost, where young Christians are looked after and helped, where minister and people have a love for the poor and outcast, a church that regards its mission in the world to seek and save the lost.”
—R. A. Torrey
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
It was a marvelous night, the sort of night one only experiences when one is young.
The sky was so bright, and there were so many stars that, gazing upward, one couldn’t help wondering how so many whimsical, wicked people could live under such a sky.
—Fyodor Dostoevsky
“Get near to Jesus. An hour’s communion with Jesus is the best preparation for teaching either the young or the old.”
Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young.
—Henry Ford
Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.
—Franz Kafka
Some thoughts always find us young, and keep us so.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
It takes a very long time to become young.
—Pablo Picasso
Youth has no age.
—Pablo Picasso
No sooner has a soul escaped than the great Adversary takes steps to ensnare it again. The fiercest attacks are made on the strongest forts, and the fiercer the battle the young believer is called on to wage, the surer evidence it is of the work of the Holy Spirit in his heart.
—D. L. Moody
A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country?
—George Washington
I am not young enough to know everything.
—Oscar Wilde
For neither birth, nor wealth, nor honors, can awaken in the minds of men the principles which should guide those who from their youth aspire to an honorable and excellent life, as Love awakens them
—Plato
What is youth? A dream. What is love? The dream’s content.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Your own tactic is to train yourself in the art of becoming enigmatic to everybody. My young friend, suppose there was no one who troubld himself to guess your riddle–what joy, then, would you have in it?
—Søren Kierkegaard
They probably think because I am so small and young, nothing of greatness and class can come out of me; but they shall soon find out.
—Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
By education I mean that training in excellence from youth upward which makes a man passionately desire to be a perfect citizen, and teaches him to rule, and to obey, with justice.
This is the only education which deserves the name.
—Plato
As you pass from the tender years of youth into harsh and embittered manhood, make sure you take with you on your journey all the human emotions! Don’t leave them on the road, for you will not pick them up afterwards!
—Nikolai Gogol
Hang on to your youthful enthusiasms — you’ll be able to use them better when you’re older.
—Seneca
“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
Education is the constraining and directing of youth towards that right reason, which the law affirms, and which the experience of the best of our elders has agreed to be truly right.
—Plato
Not one of them who took up in his youth with this opinion that there are no gods ever continued until old age faithful to his conviction.
—Plato
If the whole world depends on today’s youth, I can’t see the world lasting another 100 years.
—Socrates
If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a moveable feast.
—Ernest Hemingway
Unite with a church that has a real active interest in the salvation of the lost, where young Christians are looked after and helped, where minister and people have a love for the poor and outcast, a church that regards its mission in the world to seek and save the lost.”
—R. A. Torrey