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

1.

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

2.

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

Williams, Carey

3.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

4.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

5.

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

6.

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

Brookner, Anita

7.

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

Hafiz

8.

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

9.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

11.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

12.

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

13.

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

Miller, Henry

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

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.

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

Jung, Carl

18.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

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

20.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

21.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

22.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

26.

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

George Bernard Shaw

27.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

28.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

31.

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

Benchley, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

34.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

35.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

36.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

41.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Euripides

43.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

44.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Lindsey, Ben

49.

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

Bumper Sticker

50.

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

Little, Mary