Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

11.

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

12.

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

13.

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

Seneca

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

17.

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

Willa Cather

18.

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

19.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

20.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

22.

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.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

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

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

27.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

29.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

30.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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.

36.

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

Eliot, T. S.

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Brookner, Anita

40.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

41.

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

42.

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

W. H. Thompson

43.

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

44.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

45.

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.

46.

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.

47.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

48.

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

Bumper Sticker

49.

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

James M. Barrie

50.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.