Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

10.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Bible

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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

15.

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

16.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

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

Benchley, Robert

22.

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

Picabia, Francis

23.

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

24.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

25.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

26.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

27.

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

28.

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

George Bernard Shaw

29.

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

Jung, Carl

30.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

33.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

36.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

37.

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

Hafiz

38.

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

39.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

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

41.

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

Eliot, T. S.

42.

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

Williams, Carey

43.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

44.

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

45.

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

Willa Cather

46.

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

Euripides

47.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

48.

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

Dave Barry

49.

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

50.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift