Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lowell, James Russell

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

10.

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

11.

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

Jung, Carl

12.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

13.

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

14.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

15.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

19.

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

20.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

21.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Williams, Carey

25.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

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

27.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

28.

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

29.

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

Coco Chanel

30.

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

Hill, Aaron

32.

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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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

34.

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

Benchley, Robert

35.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

36.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

37.

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

38.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

39.

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

Euripides

40.

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

Eliot, T. S.

41.

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

James M. Barrie

42.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

43.

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

44.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

45.

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.

46.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

47.

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

48.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

50.

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

Hafiz