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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

11.

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

12.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

13.

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

James M. Barrie

14.

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

15.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

19.

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

20.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

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

Hafiz

22.

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

Hill, Aaron

23.

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

Miller, Henry

24.

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

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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.

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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

27.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Willa Cather

29.

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

Brookner, Anita

30.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

31.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

32.

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

33.

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

Euripides

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

Dave Barry

42.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

44.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

45.

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

Bible

46.

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

47.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

48.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

49.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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