Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

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

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

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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.

10.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

11.

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

12.

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

Williams, Carey

13.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

14.

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

Lindsey, Ben

15.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

16.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

21.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

22.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

23.

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

24.

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

Picabia, Francis

25.

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

Bumper Sticker

26.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

27.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

30.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

31.

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

32.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

34.

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

35.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

38.

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

Bible

39.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

41.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

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

Coco Chanel

45.

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

James M. Barrie

46.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

48.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

49.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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