Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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 is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

11.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

12.

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

13.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

14.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

15.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

16.

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

17.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

18.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

19.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

20.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

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 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

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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

25.

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

George Bernard Shaw

26.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

27.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

35.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

36.

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

37.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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.

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

Little, Mary

41.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

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

Hafiz

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