Home / Topics / Youth Quotes

Youth Quotes

Browse 4478 quotes about Youth.

Youth Quotes

“The heroic hours of life do not announce their presence by drum and trumpet, challenging us to be true to ourselves by appeals to the martial spirit that keeps the blood at heat. Some little, unassuming, unobtrusive choice presents itself before us slyly and craftily, glib and insinuating, in the modest garb of innocence. . . . Then it is that you will be summoned to show the courage of adventurous youth.”

Littles Character Shows Spirit Choices Hours Challenges Blood Youth Being True Appeals Innocence Heat Heroic Modest Adventurous Trumpets Unassuming

Author:Benjamin Cardozo

“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.”

Men Mind Humans Youth Speech Behavior Accidents Lovely Human Life Accomplishment Decent Addresses Gravity Freedom Of Speech Modest Cheerful Elegant Serene Appearing Good Humor

Author:Isaac Watts

“You, that have toiled during youth, to set your son upon higher ground, and to enable him to begin where you left off, do not expect that son to be what you were, - diligent, modest, active, simple in his tastes, fertile in resources. You have put him under quite a different master. Poverty educated you; wealth will educate him. You cannot suppose the result will be the same.”

Source: Anna Letitia Barbauld: Selected Poetry and Prose

“The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.”

Knows Youth Cameras Modesty Modest

Author:Mason Cooley

“My trick - is there one? Well, perhaps a bitter youth with many changes of occupation, with the necessity of trying everything from poetry to berry picking. These difficult early years probably constitute the sources of my modest photographic activity.”

Trying Years Wells Difficult Youth Source Activity Tricks Bitter Occupation Modest Berries Trying Everything

Author:Martin Munkacsi