Youthful Resilience Quotes

Youth gives a sense of new days dawning bright, going on for ever, and a kind of tamped-down excitement which keeps breaking through even the worst days of poverty, depression and loneliness. But then youth is something which only exists in retrospect; you are barely conscious of it while you have it.

The future is now. It's time to grow up and be strong. Tomorrow may well be too late.

Youth, even in its sorrows, always has a brilliancy of its own.

Good Charlotte, for us, comes from a place of youth for us, back when we were struggling and fighting for every inch, just trying to get by.

Youth is Gilead, in which is balm for every wound.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

When you're growing up, you just take what you've got.

Only to youth will spring be spring.

There is often a good deal of the child left in people who have had to grow up too soon.

It is good to have a failure while you're young because it teaches you so much. For one thing it makes you aware that such a thing can happen to anybody, and once you've lived through the worst, you're never quite as vulnerable afterward.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

When you are a young person, you are like a young creek, and you meet many rocks, many obstacles and difficulties on your way. You hurry to get past these obstacles and get to the ocean. But as the creek moves down through the fields, it becomes larges and calmer and it can enjoy the reflection of the sky. It's wonderful. You will arrive at the sea anyway so enjoy the journey. Enjoy the sunshine, the sunset, the moon, the birds, the trees, and the many beauties along the way. Taste every moment of your daily life.

The vaunted experience of age was perhaps only a matter of wounds and scarring -- that young minds to old minds might be as young bodies to old bodies: stronger, more vital, less twisted by damage.

I was a veteran, before I was a teenager.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Youth goes caparisoned in immortality.

You're young and you're bulletproof and invincible. But never underestimate the power of other people's love and prayer.

I love coming of age stories that have struggle.

Hamburg totally wrecked us. I remember getting home to England and my dad thought I was half-dead. I looked like a skeleton, I hadn't noticed the change, I'd been having such a ball!

I kind of was shoveled onto a boat at 11 and went to England. I didn't have any parent watching over me. It was very free and may have been a bit of a scary time for me, but I really don't remember much about the voyage apart from playing ping-pong a lot with a couple friends.

In the lexicon of youth which fate reserves for a bright manhood, there is no such word as fail.

We are who we are. People who are older have the advantage of more experience. But you don't have to despair just because you're young. If young age is the problem, you can take comfort in the fact that it gets better with each passing day.

When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

We will make it because we are young and we will never, never give up.