Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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 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

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

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

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.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

12.

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

Dave Barry

13.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

14.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

18.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

19.

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

Bumper Sticker

20.

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

21.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Kafka, Franz

25.

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

26.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

28.

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

Willa Cather

29.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

34.

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

35.

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

James M. Barrie

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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.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

38.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

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

Lindsey, Ben

40.

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

W. H. Thompson

41.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

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

Geraldy, Paul

44.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, French

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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

48.

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.