Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about 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

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

Bible

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

Dave Barry

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

W. H. Thompson

15.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

16.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

17.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

18.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

19.

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

Wade, H. V.

20.

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

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

23.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

Euripides

25.

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

Hafiz

26.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

27.

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

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

29.

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

Proverb, French

30.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

31.

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

32.

Johnson, Samuel

33.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

34.

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

35.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

36.

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

Kafka, Franz

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

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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

42.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

43.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

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

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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.

46.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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

48.

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

49.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Jung, Carl