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

1.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

2.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

3.

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

Geraldy, Paul

4.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

5.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

6.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

7.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

8.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

9.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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

11.

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

Brookner, Anita

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

14.

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

Picabia, Francis

15.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

16.

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

Euripides

17.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

19.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

20.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

Proverb, French

23.

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

Jung, Carl

24.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Lindsey, Ben

26.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

28.

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

Willa Cather

29.

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

30.

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

W. H. Thompson

31.

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

32.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

Coco Chanel

39.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

40.

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

41.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

42.

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

43.

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

James M. Barrie

44.

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