Motivational Quotes

Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

W. H. Thompson

10.

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

11.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

14.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

15.

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

Coco Chanel

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

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

Eliot, T. S.

18.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

20.

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

Bible

21.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

22.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

23.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

24.

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

25.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

26.

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

27.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

28.

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

Euripides

29.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

31.

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

Wade, H. V.

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

36.

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

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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

38.

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

Proverb, French

39.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

40.

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.

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

42.

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.

43.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

44.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

45.

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

Dave Barry

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.

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

48.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

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