Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Jung, Carl

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

10.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

12.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

13.

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

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

15.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

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

18.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

19.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

21.

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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

24.

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

W. H. Thompson

25.

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

26.

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

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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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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

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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

31.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

33.

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

Lindsey, Ben

34.

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

35.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

45.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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.

Sidney J. Harris

49.

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

Hill, Aaron

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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