Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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.

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Seneca

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

10.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

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

14.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

15.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

James M. Barrie

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.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

20.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

21.

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

22.

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

Coco Chanel

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

28.

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.

29.

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

Williams, Carey

30.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

31.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

32.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Bumper Sticker

34.

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

Little, Mary

35.

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

36.

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

George Bernard Shaw

37.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

38.

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

Hafiz

39.

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

Benchley, Robert

40.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

41.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

42.

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

Brookner, Anita

43.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

44.

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

45.

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

Lindsey, Ben

46.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

47.

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

48.

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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