Youth Quotes

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
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
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
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
Idealism is the last luxury that only the young possess.
Tan Malaka
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
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 easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
Aristotle
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