Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

- Coco Chanel

Best Quotes about Youth

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

James M. Barrie

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Picabia, Francis

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

10.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

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

Wade, H. V.

15.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

16.

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

17.

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

18.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

19.

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

20.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

21.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

22.

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

23.

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

Williams, Carey

24.

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

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

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

Lindsey, Ben

27.

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

Brookner, Anita

28.

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

Dave Barry

29.

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

30.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

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

Dickens, Charles

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

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.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

37.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

38.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

39.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

40.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

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

42.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

43.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

George Bernard Shaw

47.

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

48.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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

50.

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