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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benchley, Robert

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

10.

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

11.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

12.

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

13.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

14.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

15.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

16.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Euripides

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

Lowell, James Russell

21.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

22.

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

James M. Barrie

24.

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

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

32.

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

George Bernard Shaw

33.

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.

34.

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.

35.

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

Bible

36.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

37.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

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

42.

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

Dave Barry

43.

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

Coco Chanel

44.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

45.

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

46.

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

Little, Mary

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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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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