Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hafiz

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.

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Little, Mary

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

10.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

Geraldy, Paul

13.

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

14.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

18.

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

Williams, Carey

19.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

20.

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

Hill, Aaron

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

24.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

25.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

26.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

30.

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

Willa Cather

31.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

32.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

33.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Kafka, Franz

38.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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