Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Seneca

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

Euripides

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

Bible

10.

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

11.

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

Benchley, Robert

12.

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

W. H. Thompson

13.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

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

15.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

16.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

19.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

21.

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

22.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

24.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

25.

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

26.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

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

Williams, Carey

32.

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

33.

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

34.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

35.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

36.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

37.

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

James M. Barrie

38.

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

Brookner, Anita

39.

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

Hill, Aaron

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

44.

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

Kafka, Franz

45.

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

Coco Chanel

46.

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

Proverb, French

47.

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

Jung, Carl

48.

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

49.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

50.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard