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

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

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

Proverb, French

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

Brookner, Anita

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Williams, Carey

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

10.

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

Lindsey, Ben

11.

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

12.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

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

15.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

16.

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.

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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.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

23.

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

Coco Chanel

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

26.

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

Dave Barry

27.

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

Eliot, T. S.

28.

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

29.

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

Benchley, Robert

30.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

31.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

32.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

33.

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

34.

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

Hill, Aaron

35.

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

Miller, Henry

36.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

37.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

40.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

41.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

42.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

43.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

44.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

Geraldy, Paul

46.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

48.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

49.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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