Motivational Quotes

Youth

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Youth

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Marden, Orison Swett

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

11.

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

12.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

13.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

14.

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

15.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

16.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

17.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

19.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

20.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

21.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

22.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

23.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

24.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

25.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

26.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

27.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

28.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

29.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

30.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

32.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

33.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

34.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

35.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

36.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

37.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

38.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

40.

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

41.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

43.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

44.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

45.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

46.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

47.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

48.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

49.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.