Motivational Quotes

Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Youth

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Coco Chanel

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

Williams, Carey

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.

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.

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

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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

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

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

14.

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

Benchley, Robert

15.

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

16.

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

Hafiz

17.

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

Jung, Carl

18.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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.

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

Euripides

21.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

22.

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

Lindsey, Ben

23.

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

24.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

25.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

26.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

27.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

28.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

29.

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

30.

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

31.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

32.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

33.

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

W. H. Thompson

34.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

36.

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

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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

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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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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.

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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

41.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

43.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

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

45.

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

Picabia, Francis

46.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Geraldy, Paul

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