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

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

Picabia, Francis

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

Bible

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

W. H. Thompson

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

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.

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

Williams, Carey

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

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

Lowell, James Russell

15.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

16.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

17.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

19.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

20.

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

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

22.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

23.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

24.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

25.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

26.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

28.

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

Coco Chanel

29.

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

30.

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

Willa Cather

31.

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

Kafka, Franz

32.

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

Geraldy, Paul

33.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

34.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

35.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

37.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Bumper Sticker

41.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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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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.

44.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

45.

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

46.

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

Proverb, French

47.

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

Lindsey, Ben

48.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

49.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

50.

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