Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you’ve got to start young.

Theodore Roosevelt

Be strong, my young friends; that is my advice to you. You will be nearer to Heaven through football than through the study of the Gita. These are bold words; but I have to say them, for I love you. I know where the shoe pinches.

Swami Vivekananda

I was a crazy young man who let himself be blinded by his passions and obeyed only the impulses of the moment.

Gustav Mahler

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man who starts out to be poor and honorable, holds in his hand one of the strongest elements of success.

Orison Swett Marden

If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences.

H. P. Lovecraft

Young people should take the opportunity to do all the things they will be unable to do when they're older.

I wish our clever young poets would remember my homely definitions of prose and poetry that is prose words in their best order-poetry the best words in the best order.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you look in the eyes of the young, you see flame. If you look in the eyes of the old, you see light.

Victor Hugo

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

Oscar Wilde

When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old.

Mark Twain

He whom the Gods love dies young, while he is in health, has his senses and his judgments sound.

Plautus

Every young man would do well to remember that all successful business stands on the foundation of morality.

Henry Ward Beecher