Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hafiz

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Seneca

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jung, Carl

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Aaron

10.

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

Benchley, Robert

11.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

13.

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

14.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

15.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

16.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

17.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

18.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

19.

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

Euripides

20.

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

21.

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

Hafiz

22.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

23.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Proverb, French

25.

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.

26.

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

Bumper Sticker

27.

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

Dave Barry

28.

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

George Bernard Shaw

29.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

30.

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

31.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Picabia, Francis

36.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

37.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

38.

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

39.

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

James M. Barrie

40.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

41.

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

42.

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

Miller, Henry

43.

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

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

46.

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

47.

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

Lowell, James Russell

48.

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

49.

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

Williams, Carey

50.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.