Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Coco Chanel

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

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

Seneca

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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.

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

Wade, H. V.

10.

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

11.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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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

14.

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

Little, Mary

15.

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

Lindsey, Ben

16.

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

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

19.

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

Picabia, Francis

20.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

21.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Bumper Sticker

24.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

25.

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

Benchley, Robert

26.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

27.

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

W. H. Thompson

28.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

36.

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

37.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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]

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

Coco Chanel

40.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

41.

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.

42.

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

43.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

44.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

49.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

50.

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