Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

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

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 ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

10.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

13.

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

Eliot, T. S.

14.

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

Wade, H. V.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

19.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

20.

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

Dave Barry

21.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

22.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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.

24.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

25.

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

26.

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

Coco Chanel

27.

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

Little, Mary

28.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

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.

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

36.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

38.

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

39.

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

Jung, Carl

40.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

41.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

48.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

49.

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