33 Quotes About Youth

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

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.

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.

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

Luxury! More perilous to youth than storms or quicksand, poverty or chains.

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.

So much has been said and sung of beautiful young girls, why doesn't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?

Those whimpering Stateside young people will wake up on the Day of Judgment condemned to worse fates than these demon-fearing Indians, because, having a Bible, they were bored with it - while these never heard of such a thing as writing.

Death is as near to the young as to the old; here is all the difference: death stands behind the young man's back, before the old man's face.

When I was young, I was sure of many things; now there are only two things of which I am sure: one is that I am a miserable sinner; and the other, that Christ is an all-sufficient Savior. He is well-taught who learns these two lessons.

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.

Christian Youth of America, can you not hear the call of God in this hour? All heaven awaits the moment when you will arise and ACT on behalf of your generation.

Oh, the joy of young ideas painted on the mind, in the warm, glowing colors fancy spreads on objects not yet known, when all is new and all is lovely!

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

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.

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.

Youth, beauty, wit may recommend you to men, but only faith in Jesus Christ can recommend you to God.

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

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

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.

Christian Youth, I need to ask why you sit in the padded pews of your fathers while all around the darkness takes your cities and your friends.

I love the soul that dares tread the temptations of his years beneath his youthful feet.

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

Time is the rider that breaks youth.

George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life.

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

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.

History maketh a young man to be old, without wrinkles or gray hairs, privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

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.

Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.