Youthful Optimism Quotes & Sayings

Since you own your life, you are responsible for your life. You do not rent your life from others who demand your obedience. Nor are you a slave to others who demand your sacrifice. You choose your own goals based on your own values. Success and failure are both the necessary incentives to learn and to grow. Your action on behalf of others, or their action on behalf of you, is only virtuous when it is derived from voluntary, mutual consent. For virtue can only exist when there is free choice. — Ken Schoolland

It is better to seek purity than the pleasure of sin. — Lailah Gifty Akita

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 very thing. — G. M. Trevelyan

[Nietzsche inveighs] against every sort of historical optimism; but he energetically repudiates the ordinary pessimism, which is the result of degenerate or enfeebled instincts of decadence. He preaches with youthful enthusiasm the triumph of a tragic culture, introduced by an intrepid rising generation, in which the spirit of ancient Greece might be born again. He rejects the pessimism of Schopenhauer, for he already abhors all renunciation; but he seeks a pessimism of healthiness, one derived from strength, from exuberant power, and he believes he has found it in the Greeks. — Georg Brandes

There is something so amiable in the prejudices of a young mind, that one is sorry to see them give way to the reception of more general opinions. — Jane Austen

Live life like a Legend, and society will start acknowledging you as a great Entrepreneur ! — Ujjwal Chugh

Harvey out.
PS I have puny shoulders.
PPS And I'm okay with that.
PPPS I'm not really. — Laura Buzo

Treasure the beauty of youthful life and the wisdom of adulthood. — Lailah Gifty Akita

It is only in the realm of pure science that truth is an absolute criterion. When we deal with applied science, with technology - we deal with people. And when we deal with people, considerations other than truth enter the question. — Ayn Rand

War is when young men dream of being grandfathers. — Erri De Luca

A handful of lion-hearts can wake the whole world up. — Abhijit Naskar

Appreciate youthful exuberance. — Lailah Gifty Akita

The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau

The young women in my classes are feisty and clever and believe, often with the passion of youthful optimism, that feminism is a battle already won. I worry for them - and for my daughters, too. — Louise Brown

Remember your creator in the days of your youth. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Youthful vigor becomes more rot than wisdom. Hopeful optimism is battered by harsh reality. Health and understanding seem to intersect in one's forties, the one peaking as the other begins its slow ascent. Maybe you'll know one day what you should've taken the time to appreciate. Maybe it'll be when your knees start popping, when your hands no longer work like they should. It probably won't be any sooner. — Hugh Howey

I may speak many languages, but there remains one in which I live. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

Keep the enthusiasm of your youth and treasure the wisdom of old age. — Lailah Gifty Akita

When asking about ones age the question asked is how old are you.I would hereby like to advocate rephrasing this as - how young are you? — Amit Abraham

We're fighting people that hates our values. They can't stand what America stands for. — George W. Bush

To represent the best of Canada is such an honour, it's chilling. There is so much excitement. — Hayley Wickenheiser

It is soon to be spring
The Christmas toys barely played with
I have a glass soldier whose head can turn
The epaulettes interchangeable
Soon flowers will bloom
Lawrence from the garden shed will give us
each a cup of seeds

I am to wait
I said — George Saunders