Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

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

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.

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.

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

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

Willa Cather

12.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Little, Mary

15.

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

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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]

Bible

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

George Bernard Shaw

18.

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

19.

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

James M. Barrie

20.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

21.

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

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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

23.

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

24.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

25.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

Dave Barry

27.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

28.

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

29.

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

Benchley, Robert

30.

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

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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

32.

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

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

35.

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

36.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

37.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

38.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Lindsey, Ben

40.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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

42.

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

Brookner, Anita

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

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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

48.

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

Bumper Sticker

49.

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

Coco Chanel

50.

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