Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Youth

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Bible

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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

11.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

12.

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

Euripides

13.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

15.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Benchley, Robert

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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.

22.

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

Eliot, T. S.

23.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

25.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

26.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

27.

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

Little, Mary

28.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

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

30.

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.

31.

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

George Bernard Shaw

32.

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

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

34.

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

37.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

39.

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

James M. Barrie

40.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

Dickens, Charles

45.

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

Coco Chanel

46.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

47.

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

Hafiz

48.

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

49.

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

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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