Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bible

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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.

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

16.

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

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

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

19.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

20.

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

21.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

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

Bumper Sticker

24.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

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

26.

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

Euripides

27.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

28.

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

Hill, Aaron

29.

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

32.

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

34.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

35.

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

Geraldy, Paul

36.

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

Jung, Carl

37.

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

Coco Chanel

38.

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

39.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

40.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

41.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

43.

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

Lowell, James Russell

44.

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

45.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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

47.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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