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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Lindsey, Ben

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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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

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

10.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

14.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

15.

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

Kafka, Franz

16.

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

Jung, Carl

17.

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

Bible

18.

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

Benchley, Robert

19.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

21.

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

James M. Barrie

22.

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

23.

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

Dave Barry

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

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

26.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

27.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

28.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

29.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

30.

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

31.

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

Brookner, Anita

32.

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

33.

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

34.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

35.

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

36.

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

Proverb, French

37.

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

38.

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

Seneca

39.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

40.

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

41.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

42.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

43.

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

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

46.

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

George Bernard Shaw

47.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

48.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

49.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.