Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Willa Cather

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

10.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

11.

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

Williams, Carey

12.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

13.

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.

14.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

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

16.

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

Brookner, Anita

17.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

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

19.

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.

20.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Bible

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

23.

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

Jung, Carl

24.

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

Little, Mary

25.

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

26.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

27.

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

28.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Benchley, Robert

36.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

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

Lowell, James Russell

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Coco Chanel

41.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Picabia, Francis

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

48.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

49.

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

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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.