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

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

10.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

11.

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

12.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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.

15.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

16.

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

W. H. Thompson

17.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

18.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

19.

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

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

22.

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

23.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

24.

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

Coco Chanel

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Bumper Sticker

28.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

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

Williams, Carey

30.

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

Lowell, James Russell

31.

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

Brookner, Anita

32.

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

33.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

Euripides

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

39.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

40.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

43.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

44.

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

Willa Cather

46.

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.

47.

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

Benchley, Robert

48.

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

49.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann