20th birthday Quote by Albert Schweitzer

“The truth is simply that money, power, and all the possessions for which men torment and ultimately shoot each other mean little to one…

— Hermann Hesse

Money is sullen And wisdom is sly, But youth is the pollen That blows through the sky And does not ask why.

— Stephen Vincent Benet

The man is distinguished from the youth by the fact that he takes the world as it is, instead of everywhere fancying it amiss…

— Max Stirner

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him.

— Orison Swett Marden

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of…

— Samuel Johnson

To many a man, and sometimes to a youth, there comes the opportunity to choose between honorable competence and tainted wealth. The young man…

— Orison Swett Marden

“He did not know how wide a country, arid and precipitous, must be crossed before the traveller through life comes to an acceptance of…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“For the wise man does not consider himself unworthy of any gifts from Fortune’s hands: he does not love wealth but he would rather…

— Seneca

“There was something in his face that made one trust him at once. All the candour of youth was there, as well as youth's…

— Oscar Wilde

When any man accumulates more than he can earn with his own hands, he begins to enrich himself at the expense of the youth,…

— Gene Stratton-Porter

“A youth of such promise, especially if his body be on a par with his mind, will be at once foremost among all his…

— Benjamin Cocker

In youth we feel richer for every new illusion; in maturer years, for every one we lose.

— Sophie Swetchine