Motivational Quotes

Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Euripides

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jung, Carl

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

12.

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

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.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

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

James M. Barrie

16.

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

Wade, H. V.

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

20.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

21.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

25.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

W. H. Thompson

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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

Seneca

31.

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

Brookner, Anita

32.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

33.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

34.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

35.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

37.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

38.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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

40.

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

Willa Cather

41.

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

42.

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

43.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

44.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

45.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

46.

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

47.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

Bumper Sticker

49.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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