Quotes about youth

Purple light of youth.

Blessings on your young courage, boy; that's the way to the stars.

The young have the ability, but lack the wisdom, and the old have the wisdom, but lack the ability.

Pointing to a pile of dust, that had collected, I foolishly begged to have as many anniversaries of my birth, as were represented by the dust. But I forgot to ask that the years should be accompanied by youth.

In youth alone, unhappy mortals live;

But, ah! the mighty bliss is fugitive:

Discolored sickness, anxious labor, come,

And age, and death's inexorable doom.

Ah, lovely boy, trust not too much to your bloom!

It is the most foolish of all errors for young people of good intelligence to imagine that they will forfeit their originality if they acknowledge truth already acknowledged by others.

Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.

“Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young.”

But Abraham believed, therefore he was young; for he who always hopes for the best becomes old, and he who is always prepared for the worst grows early, but he who believes preserves an eternal youth.

Fools and young men prate about everything being possible for a man. That, however, is a great error. Spiritually speaking, everything is possible, but in the world of the finite there is much which is not possible.

Old age realizes the dreams of youth: look at Dean Swift; in his youth he built an asylum for the insane, in his old age he was himself an inmate.