Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Bible

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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.

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

12.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

13.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

15.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

16.

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

Hill, Aaron

17.

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

18.

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

19.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

21.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

22.

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

23.

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

24.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

25.

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

26.

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

Jung, Carl

27.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

29.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Proverb, French

34.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

35.

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.

36.

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

37.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

38.

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

George Bernard Shaw

39.

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

Hafiz

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

41.

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

42.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

44.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

45.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

46.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

47.

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

Benchley, Robert

48.

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

49.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset