Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Little, Mary

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

14.

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

Williams, Carey

15.

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

16.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

17.

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

Dave Barry

18.

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

19.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

20.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

23.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

27.

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

Lindsey, Ben

28.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

30.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

32.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

37.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

39.

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

40.

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

Euripides

41.

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

Brookner, Anita

42.

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

Bumper Sticker

43.

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

Coco Chanel

44.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

45.

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

46.

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.

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph