Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Picabia, Francis

Best Quotes about Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

10.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

12.

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

13.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

14.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

15.

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

James M. Barrie

16.

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

Willa Cather

17.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

18.

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

19.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

20.

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

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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.

24.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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

Eliot, T. S.

26.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

27.

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

Picabia, Francis

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

34.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

35.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

36.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

37.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Hill, Aaron

39.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

41.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

42.

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

43.

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

44.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

48.

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

Lindsey, Ben

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