Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Euripides

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

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

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

12.

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

Kafka, Franz

13.

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

14.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

16.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

23.

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

24.

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

Lindsey, Ben

25.

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

Brookner, Anita

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Willa Cather

30.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

31.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

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

34.

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

Bumper Sticker

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

38.

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

Hafiz

39.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

40.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

42.

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

43.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

44.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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.

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

W. H. Thompson

49.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

50.

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