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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Coco Chanel

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Aaron

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

10.

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

11.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

12.

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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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

14.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

20.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

James M. Barrie

25.

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

Euripides

26.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

27.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

28.

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

George Bernard Shaw

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

W. H. Thompson

33.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

34.

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

35.

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

36.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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

38.

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

Kafka, Franz

39.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

40.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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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

44.

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Grillparzer, Franz

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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]

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50.

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

Benchley, Robert