Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

James M. Barrie

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Benchley, Robert

11.

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

Little, Mary

12.

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

13.

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.

14.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

15.

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

16.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

17.

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

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

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

Hafiz

20.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

21.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

22.

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

George Bernard Shaw

23.

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

24.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

26.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

27.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

30.

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.

31.

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

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Coco Chanel

35.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

38.

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

39.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Bumper Sticker

44.

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

W. H. Thompson

45.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

46.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Shaw, George Bernard