Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

11.

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

12.

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

Dickens, Charles

13.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

14.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

20.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

22.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

23.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

24.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

25.

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

26.

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

Willa Cather

27.

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

28.

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.

29.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

30.

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

31.

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

W. H. Thompson

32.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

33.

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

34.

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

Wade, H. V.

35.

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

Williams, Carey

36.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

38.

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

Coco Chanel

39.

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

40.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

41.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

42.

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

43.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo