Motivational Quotes

Youth

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

- Sidney J. Harris

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Benchley, Robert

10.

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

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

Eliot, T. S.

15.

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

16.

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

Hafiz

17.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

22.

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

Brookner, Anita

23.

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

Kafka, Franz

24.

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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

26.

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

27.

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

28.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Dave Barry

30.

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

31.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

32.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Hill, Aaron

34.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Seneca

39.

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

40.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

41.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

42.

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

43.

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

Little, Mary

44.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

45.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.