Youth Of Today Quotes

• Young people need models, not critics.

  John Wooden

  Basketball, Nba, People

  John Wooden, Jack Tobin, Bill Walton (2004). “They Call Me Coach”, McGraw Hill Professional

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• The children now love luxury; they have bad manners, contempt for authority; they show disrespect for elders and love chatter in place of exercise. Children are now tyrants, not the servants of their households. They no longer rise when elders enter the room. They contradict their parents, chatter before company, gobble up dainties at the table, cross their legs, and tyrannize their teachers.

  Aristophanes

  Love, Respect, Teacher

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• To the youth of today, I also have a wish to make: be the scriptwriters of your destiny and feature yourselves as stars that showed the way towards a brighter future.

  Nelson Mandela

  Stars, Destiny, Wish

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.427, Pan Macmillan

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• The youth of today are the leaders of tomorrow.

  Nelson Mandela

  Leaders Of Tomorrow, Leader, Today

  "Nelson Mandela’s 1990 visit left lasting impression" by Peter Schworm, www.bostonglobe.com. December 7, 2013.

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• They - Young People have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things - and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning - all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything - they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

  Aristotle

  Love, Hate, Mistake

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• The problem with the youth of today' is that one is no longer part of it.

  Salvador Dali

  Today, Youth, Problem

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• I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint.

  Hesiod

  Wise, Patience, Hope

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• What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But the most daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease of loneliness can be cured.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Lonely, Loneliness, Being Alone

  Kurt Vonnegut (1982). “Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage”, Dell Books

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• That's where the future lies, in the youth of today.

  Willie Stargell

  Lying, Deceit, Today

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• You, our youth of today, are among the most illustrious spirits to be born into mortality in any age of the world. Yours is a noble heritage and a wonderful opportunity.

  Harold B. Lee

  Opportunity, Our Generation, Age

  Harold B. Lee (1973). “Youth & the church”

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• The youth of today and the youth of tomorrow will be accorded an almost unequaled opportunity for great accomplishment and for human service.

  Nicholas Murray Butler

  Opportunity, Accomplishment, Tomorrow

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• Some argued that the youth of today were poorly educated and insufficiently industrious, but one of them had sought to validate his generation by spending considerable time and effort chiseling an obscene word in the concrete picnic table, and he had spelled it correctly.

  Dean Koontz

  Effort, Generations, Tables

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• I built a conglomerate and emerged the richest black man in the world in 2008 but it didn’t happen overnight. It took me 30 years to get to where I am today. Youths of today aspire to be like me but they want to achieve it overnight. It’s not going to work. To build a successful business, you must start small and dream big. In the journey of entrepreneurship, tenacity of purpose is supreme.

  Aliko Dangote

  Dream, Successful, Journey

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• The white youth of today have begun to react to the fact that the American Way of Life is a fossil of history. What do they care if their old baldheaded and crew-cut elders don't dig their caveman mops? They couldn't care less about the old, stiff-assed honkies who don't like their new dances: Frog, Monkey, Jerk, Swim, Watusi. All they know is that it feels good to swing to way-out body-rhythms instead of dragging across the dance floor like zombies to the dead beat of mind-smothered Mickey Mouse music.

  Eldridge Cleaver

  Life, Cutting, Swings

  ELDRIDGE CLEAVER (1968). “SOUL ON ICE”

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