Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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.

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

10.

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

Bible

11.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

12.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

14.

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

15.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

16.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

17.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

18.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

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

20.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

22.

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

Willa Cather

23.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

24.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

27.

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

Lindsey, Ben

28.

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

Williams, Carey

29.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

30.

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

Wade, H. V.

31.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

32.

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

33.

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

Geraldy, Paul

34.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

35.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

36.

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

Picabia, Francis

37.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

38.

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

W. H. Thompson

39.

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

40.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

45.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

46.

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

47.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

48.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

49.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

50.

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

Hill, Aaron