Motivational Quotes

Youth

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

- White, Elwyn Brooks

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Picabia, Francis

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

14.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

15.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

16.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

17.

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.

18.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

21.

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.

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

26.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

Geraldy, Paul

29.

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

Williams, Carey

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

32.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

33.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

34.

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

35.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

36.

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

Miller, Henry

37.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

40.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

46.

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

47.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

48.

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

49.

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

Lindsey, Ben

50.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French