Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

10.

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

Brookner, Anita

11.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

12.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

13.

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

Jung, Carl

14.

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

15.

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

16.

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

George Bernard Shaw

17.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

18.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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

22.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

23.

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

Hafiz

24.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

26.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

27.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

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

29.

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

Lindsey, Ben

30.

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

31.

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

Willa Cather

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Coco Chanel

36.

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

37.

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

Williams, Carey

38.

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

W. H. Thompson

39.

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

40.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

41.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

Picabia, Francis

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

45.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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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

47.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

48.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

49.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

50.

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