Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Seneca

10.

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

Willa Cather

11.

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

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

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

14.

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

Kafka, Franz

15.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

16.

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

17.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

18.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

20.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

21.

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

22.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

28.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

32.

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

Miller, Henry

33.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

34.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

35.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

36.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Geraldy, Paul

38.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

40.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

41.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

45.

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

46.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

47.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

48.

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

49.

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

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett