Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Proverb, French

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

13.

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

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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

James M. Barrie

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

22.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

24.

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

Geraldy, Paul

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

29.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

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

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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

38.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

39.

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

Dave Barry

40.

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

41.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Willa Cather

43.

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

44.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

45.

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

46.

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

Bible

47.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

49.

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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John