Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Proverb, French

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hill, Aaron

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

14.

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

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

20.

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

Brookner, Anita

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

23.

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

24.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

25.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

26.

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

27.

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

Coco Chanel

28.

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

Williams, Carey

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

32.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

34.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

35.

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

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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

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

38.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

39.

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

Seneca

40.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

42.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

43.

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

44.

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

Dave Barry

45.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

46.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

47.

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

48.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

49.

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.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare