Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Kafka, Franz

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Coco Chanel

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

10.

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.

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

14.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

17.

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

Hill, Aaron

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

22.

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

Bible

23.

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

Williams, Carey

24.

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

Seneca

25.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

26.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

27.

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

28.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

29.

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

Willa Cather

30.

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

31.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

33.

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

34.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

37.

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

Geraldy, Paul

38.

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

39.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

40.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

41.

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

Proverb, French

42.

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

W. H. Thompson

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

47.

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

48.

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

Benchley, Robert

49.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

50.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset