Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Little, Mary

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

11.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

13.

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

14.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

15.

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

16.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

17.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

18.

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

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

Dave Barry

22.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

23.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

Kafka, Franz

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

29.

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

30.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

31.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

32.

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

Geraldy, Paul

33.

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

34.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

35.

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

Seneca

36.

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

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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.

38.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

39.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

40.

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

W. H. Thompson

41.

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

Euripides

42.

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

Jung, Carl

43.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

44.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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.

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

47.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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