Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Bible

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Coco Chanel

10.

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

11.

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

James M. Barrie

12.

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

George Bernard Shaw

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Little, Mary

18.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

21.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

22.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

26.

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

27.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

28.

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

Seneca

29.

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

Miller, Henry

30.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

31.

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

32.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

33.

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

Williams, Carey

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Geraldy, Paul

37.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

38.

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

Hafiz

39.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

40.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

41.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

42.

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

43.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

44.

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

45.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

46.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

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

48.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

49.

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

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

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