Youth Quotes

Here’s a few quotes about youth that are thought-provoking:

1. There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist. -Mark Twain

2. We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build youth for the future. -Franklin D. Roosevelt

3. Young people need models, not critics. -John Wooden

4. The new generation has to hear what the older generation refuses to tell it. -Simon Wiesenthal

5. How could youths better learn to live than by at once trying the experiment of living? -Henry David Thoreau

6. Every generation needs a new revolution. -Thomas Jefferson

7. Age is not an accomplishment, and youth is not a sin. -Robert Heinlein

8. Preventing the conflicts of tomorrow means changing the mind-set of youth today. -Graca Machel-Mandela

9. Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him. -Orison Swett Marden

10. Each generation should be made to bear the burden of its own wars, instead of carrying them on, at the expense of other generations. -James Madison

11. Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. -Marc Kielburger

12. The youth of a nation are the trustees of its posterity. -Benjamin Disraeli

13. When Nike says, just do it, that’s a message of empowerment. Why aren’t the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration? -Naomi Klein

14. I think the biggest problem in the world is that we have a generation of young people, and maybe two, who don’t think it’s going to get any better. -John Denver

15. Under your shoulders. Dear young people of the entire world, weigh the responsibility to transform tomorrow’s world into a society where peace, harmony, and fraternity reign. -Bishop Carlos Belo

I like #13.  How about you?

If you know any good youth quotes, please share them.

Thanks in advance,

-Shawn