Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

1.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

2.

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

3.

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.

4.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

5.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

6.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

7.

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

8.

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

9.

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

Hill, Aaron

10.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

11.

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

Bumper Sticker

12.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

13.

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

14.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

15.

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

16.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

17.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

18.

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

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

25.

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

Hafiz

26.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

35.

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

W. H. Thompson

36.

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

Lindsey, Ben

37.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

38.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

40.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

41.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

42.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

43.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

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

Benchley, Robert

45.

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

George Bernard Shaw

46.

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

Williams, Carey

47.

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

48.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

49.

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

50.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift