Young People Quotes

• The young people of today think of nothing but themselves. They have no reverence for parents or old age. They are impatient of all restraint. They talk as if they alone knew everything and what passes for wisdom with us is foolishness with them. As for girls, they are forward, immodest and unwomanly in speech, behaviour and dress.

  

  Socrates
  • Parents
  • Wisdom
  • Reverence

• When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Money
  • Henry

• When they are assailed by despair, young people should let universal concerns into their lives.

  

  Abbe Pierre
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• What is so nice & so unexpected about life is the way it improves as it goes along. I think you should impress this fact on your children because I think young people have an awful feeling that life is slipping past them & they must do something - catch something - they don't quite know what, whereas they've only got to wait & it all comes.

  

  Nancy Mitford
  • Life
  • Children
  • Wait

• Young people are going to go to someone, somewhere. And we had better see that that 'someone' is us when the opportunity is ours, for there will come a time when we will wish they would come, and do we know but that the interruption we now impatiently put off may be the most important thing we could be doing at this particular time?

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • Time
  • Important

• Young people are thoughtless as a rule.

  

  Homer
  • Rule
  • Young People
  • Thoughtless

• I think young people are the most creative and the coolest - people that we should be learning from. Even when I'm at a party, I'm analyzing it and thinking about it in the context of how I would write about it. That side of me never switches off.

  

  Lorde
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Party

• You might be surprised by how interested young people are in older people.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Young
  • Young People

• For me, the most important thing that I tell young people is to have fun.

  

  Robert Trujillo Metallica
  • Fun
  • Important Thing
  • Young People

• Now, what of the entertainment that is available to our young people today? Are you being undermined right in your homes through your television, radio, slick magazines, and rock music records?

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Music
  • Television
  • Records

• Whereas young people become accomplished in geometry and mathematics, and wise within these limits, prudent young people do not seem to be found. The reason is that prudence is concerned with particulars as well as universals, and particulars become known from experience, but a young person lacks experience, since some length of time is needed to produce it.

  

  Aristotle
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Wise

• Wars are indeed fought by children, by young people who have little to say in where they are sent to die.

  

  Jeff Shaara
  • Children
  • Die
  • Young People

• Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because life is sweet and they are growing.

  

  Aristotle
  • Life
  • Sweet
  • Condition

• The young people at the shows are all singing them right along with me, so I know that they have the records, they're bringing 'em out for me to sign.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Singing
  • Records

• Young people . . , God wants us to be victorious. He wants you to triumph over all of your foes. Stalwart and brave we must stand. God is at the helm. There is no reason for defeat.

  

  Marvin J. Ashton
  • People
  • God
  • Brave

• It is important to remind young people that peace is the only victory.

  

  Scarlett Johansson
  • Victory
  • Remind
  • Young People

• Atari showed that young people could start big companies. Without that example it would have been harder for Jobs and Bill Gates, and people who came after them, to do what they did.

  

  Nolan Bushnell
  • People
  • Companies
  • Bill Gates

• Because it is correct to make a priority of young people, taking care that they turn out as well as possible.

  

  Plato
  • Care
  • Correct
  • Young People

• Young people need plenty of difficulties to achieve something.... If you receive a little money for this, a little money for that, everything becomes mediocre, and collapses ignominiously.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Money
  • Achieve
  • Collapses

• This sentiment of self-contempt is a frequent one in young people of both sexes. Their valuation of themselves varies as much as the barometer, and is as much affected by outward causes.

  

  Humphry Davy
  • Young People
  • Sentiment
  • Barometer

• I know plenty of hyper-intelligent metal people, but at the same time, there's this dumbass, hardheaded, macho attitude associated with it. For younger people, it's like a succubus.

  

  Blake Judd
  • Metal
  • Associated
  • Succubus

• Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wish
  • Pleasures
  • Sorrows

• Young people have so many emotions growing up. If you don't feel accepted, you start sneaking around and engaging in dangerous practices.

  

  Bernadette Peters
  • Emotions
  • Young People
  • Engaging

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