Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Seneca

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

10.

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

Wade, H. V.

11.

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

Coco Chanel

12.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

13.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

14.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

15.

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

16.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

17.

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

Lindsey, Ben

18.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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

20.

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

21.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

22.

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

23.

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

Hafiz

24.

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Benchley, Robert

29.

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.

30.

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

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

34.

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

Dickens, Charles

35.

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

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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

37.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

38.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

39.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

40.

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

41.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Hill, Aaron

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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

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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

49.

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

50.

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.