Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

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

Dickens, Charles

19.

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

Seneca

22.

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

Hafiz

23.

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

Willa Cather

24.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

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

Lindsey, Ben

27.

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

Euripides

28.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

30.

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

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

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

Benchley, Robert

33.

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

34.

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

35.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

36.

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

Little, Mary

37.

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

38.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

41.

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

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

44.

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

45.

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

Williams, Carey

46.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Coco Chanel

48.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

49.

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

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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