Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Youth should learn to think and act as a mass. It is criminal to think as individuals!"
Youth quotes
Youth
876 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Huey Newton
Activist
"Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them."
George Washington
Military Leader, Politician
"The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth."
Democritus
Philosopher
"The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion."
David Bowie
Musician, Actor
"Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties."
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"Worse than not realizing the dreams of your youth, would be to have been young and never dreamed at all."
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"If youth is a defect, it is one we outgrow too soon."
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"Great endowments often announce themselves in youth in the form of singularity and awkwardness."
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"Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts."
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"At Achilles tomb, O fortunate youth, to have found Homer as the herald of your glory!"
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"There are three stages of life: youth, maturity, and 'My, you're looking good!'"
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"It's important to me that youth everywhere, no matter their race, religion, or gender, know that anything is possible with perseverance."
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"We begin to die from the moment we are born, for birth is the cause of death. The nature of decay is inherent in youth, the nature of sickness is inherent in health, in the midst of life we are verily in death."
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"We must be young to do great things."
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"If the truth is told, the youth can grow."
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"Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty."
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"Our youth should also be educated with music and physical education."
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"Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives."
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"Dear youths, I warn you cherish peace divine, And in your hearts lay deep these words of mine."
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"Homosexuals cannot reproduce-so they must recruit ... and to freshen their ranks they must recruit the youth of America."
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"The youth, intoxicated with his admiration of a hero, fails to see, that it is only a projection of his own soul, which he admires."
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"Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope."
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"Go big, or go home. Otherwise, you’re wasting your youth."
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"A youth, when at home, should be filial, and, abroad, respectful to his elders."
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"The beginning of every government starts with the education of our youth."
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