Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

10.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

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

Little, Mary

12.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

13.

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

Picabia, Francis

14.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

15.

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

16.

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

Euripides

17.

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

18.

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

19.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

23.

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

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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

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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.

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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

27.

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.

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

Geraldy, Paul

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

32.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

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

Jung, Carl

34.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

35.

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

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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

37.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Eliot, T. S.

39.

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

Lindsey, Ben

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.