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

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

Euripides

11.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

13.

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

Benchley, Robert

14.

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

Willa Cather

15.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

16.

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

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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

18.

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

19.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Coco Chanel

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Seneca

26.

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

27.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

James M. Barrie

30.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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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

32.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

33.

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

George Bernard Shaw

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

36.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

38.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

40.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

41.

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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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

45.

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

Proverb, French

46.

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

Miller, Henry

47.

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

48.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin