Youth Development Quotes

My parents were of the opinion, because they had started skating very young, that you should have something that you do that you care about, because it structures your life as you're growing up.

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

The good education of youth has been esteemed by wise men in all ages as the surest foundation of happiness.

Young people should be at the forefront of global change and innovation. Empowered, they can be key agents for development and peace.

It was from my own early experience that I decided there was no use to which money could be applied so productive of good to girls and boys who have good within them and ability and ambition to develop it as the founding of a public library.

I've been making music since age five.

From the age of seven, I basically started practicing my hand-eye and foot coordination, balance, strength, endurance, discipline, and mental toughness three days a week until I was about 15.

Sport is something that is very inspirational for young people.

Everybody recognises that giving young people competitive outlet through sport is a very good thing.

The main hope of a state lies in the proper education of its youth.

When I started Giants of Africa, I envisioned providing African youth access to the game and empowering them to achieve their greatest potential.

If you don't educate people well, then you're going to have a lot of violent, angry young men and women. You can go around saying they're all so violent, just throw them in jail, this is an underclass, what can you do? You can create fear. The issue of violence is very suitable for a repressive society. Then you can have more legislation, more police, more laws to fight crime, when all you need to do is to encourage people in a different way.

It's important that we take care of our future generations and expose them to some new things.

Many more of our young people have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy and the other arts of peace. But liberty is not quite the same thing as opportunity; the fact that young people are free to develop their abilities and talents in constructive ways does not necessarily mean that they will do so, unless they get help and support from adults.

You can get your money and you put it in the bank, or you can put it in the youth. You can put it in our future.

All the youth ..., who are rich enough to be able to devote themselves to it be set to learn ... until they are able to read English writing well.

It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.

I've just been playing football for a long time. I've been playing football since I was a little kid, so it's just some natural blessings that God has blessed me with to get to the ball and understand what I've been doing over the years.

The government can take smart steps to give all kids the healthy start they need to reach their full potential.

When I was nine, ten, I was super young, but I installed a program on my computer so I could start producing music. I just started messing around. Then, after a couple of years, I got better. I actually learned some tricks, so I knew what I was doing instead of just messing.

Secure for young people the right to education and to full-time work.

There won't be more Messis, and we don't expect there to be more, as there won't be another generation in La Masia like the one with Xavi, Busi, Puyol, Iniesta and me.

A nation becomes what its young people read in their youth. Its ideals are fashioned then, its goals strongly determined.

Youth sports could not exist without millions of volunteers and modestly paid coaches who teach our children how to skate and catch and dribble and also how to get along with others.