Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Coco Chanel

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

11.

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.

12.

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

Little, Mary

13.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

18.

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

19.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

20.

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

Williams, Carey

21.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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.

27.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

28.

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.

29.

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

Dave Barry

30.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

31.

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

32.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

33.

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

34.

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

Wade, H. V.

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

38.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

39.

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

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

42.

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

Eliot, T. S.

43.

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

Bumper Sticker

44.

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.

45.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

46.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

47.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

48.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

49.

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall