Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Bible

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

10.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

11.

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

12.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

13.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

Euripides

17.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Coco Chanel

21.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

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

Dave Barry

24.

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

26.

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

Geraldy, Paul

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Eliot, T. S.

29.

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

30.

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

Hill, Aaron

31.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

Seneca

37.

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

Willa Cather

38.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

39.

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

George Bernard Shaw

40.

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.

41.

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

42.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

43.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

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

45.

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

Kafka, Franz

46.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

47.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

48.

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

49.

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

50.

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