Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Proverb, French

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

Coco Chanel

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

Brookner, Anita

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

10.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Dave Barry

12.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

14.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Willa Cather

18.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

19.

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

20.

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

21.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

24.

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

Jung, Carl

25.

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

Bible

26.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

W. H. Thompson

31.

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

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

34.

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

Lowell, James Russell

35.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

36.

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

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

38.

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.

39.

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

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.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

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

43.

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.

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

45.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

46.

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

47.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

48.

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

49.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

50.

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

Wade, H. V.