Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hafiz

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

Proverb, French

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dave Barry

12.

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

13.

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

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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

15.

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

Little, Mary

16.

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

17.

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

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

22.

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.

23.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

24.

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

25.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Coco Chanel

30.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Benchley, Robert

36.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

37.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

38.

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

39.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

40.

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

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

42.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

43.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

44.

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

Bible

45.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Miller, Henry