Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

1.

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.

2.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

3.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

4.

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

5.

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

Brookner, Anita

6.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

7.

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

Lowell, James Russell

8.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

9.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Euripides

11.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

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

14.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

15.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

16.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

22.

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

23.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

W. H. Thompson

25.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

29.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

30.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

James M. Barrie

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

Bumper Sticker

34.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

36.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

37.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Williams, Carey

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Bible

45.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

46.

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

47.

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

Kafka, Franz

48.

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

Eliot, T. S.

49.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

50.

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

Dave Barry