
Give me a thousand old men and I will move Mount Semeru from its place. Give me ten young men and I will shake the world.Sukarno
These 9 quotes on youth come straight from the QuotePlace collection — lines by poets, philosophers, leaders and artists across the centuries. Open any card to read the quote on its own page and meet the author behind it.

Give me a thousand old men and I will move Mount Semeru from its place. Give me ten young men and I will shake the world.Sukarno

The youth is the hope of our future.José Rizal

He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.Gabriel García Márquez

Idealism is the last luxury that only the young possess.Tan Malaka
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.Friedrich von Schiller
Never tell a young person that anything cannot be done. God may have been waiting centuries for someone ignorant enough of the impossible to do that…John Holmes

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person — 'Always do what you are afraid to do.'Ralph Waldo Emerson

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.Benjamin Disraeli

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.Aristotle