Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

George Bernard Shaw

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

19.

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

Dave Barry

20.

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

21.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

23.

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

24.

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

25.

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

Bumper Sticker

26.

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

27.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Wade, H. V.

31.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

32.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

33.

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

Lindsey, Ben

34.

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

35.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

36.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

37.

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

38.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

39.

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

40.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

41.

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

Bible

42.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

45.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

46.

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.

47.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

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