Motivational Quotes

Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Youth

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Lowell, James Russell

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

10.

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

Geraldy, Paul

11.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

12.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

13.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

14.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

15.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

16.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

17.

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

18.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

19.

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

20.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

21.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

22.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

23.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

24.

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

25.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

26.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

27.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

28.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

29.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

30.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

31.

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

32.

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

Wade, H. V.

33.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

34.

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

35.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

36.

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

37.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

38.

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

39.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

40.

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

Benchley, Robert

41.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

42.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

44.

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

Lindsey, Ben

45.

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

Eliot, T. S.

46.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

47.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

48.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

49.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

50.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie