Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Little, Mary

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

Bible

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

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

Miller, Henry

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

10.

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

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

George Bernard Shaw

13.

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

14.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

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

Benchley, Robert

17.

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

18.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

19.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

20.

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

21.

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

22.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

23.

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

24.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Bumper Sticker

26.

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

27.

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

28.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

29.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

30.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

31.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

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

Willa Cather

34.

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

35.

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

W. H. Thompson

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

42.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

43.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

44.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

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

46.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

47.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

48.

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

Proverb, French

49.

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

50.

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

Livingston, Richard W.