Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

11.

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

Bible

12.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

13.

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

14.

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

15.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

16.

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

17.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

18.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

Hafiz

20.

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

George Bernard Shaw

21.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

22.

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

23.

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

Bumper Sticker

24.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

26.

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

Williams, Carey

27.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

30.

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

Brookner, Anita

31.

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

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

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

34.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

35.

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

36.

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

Lowell, James Russell

37.

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

Lindsey, Ben

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

39.

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

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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

43.

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

Little, Mary

44.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Jung, Carl

48.

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

Coco Chanel

49.

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

Kafka, Franz

50.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.