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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Miller, Henry

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

10.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

11.

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

12.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Lindsey, Ben

14.

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

Bible

15.

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

Hafiz

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.

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.

18.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

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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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

22.

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

23.

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

Euripides

24.

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

26.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

29.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

31.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

32.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

34.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

35.

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

Willa Cather

36.

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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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

38.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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

40.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

41.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

46.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

47.

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

48.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

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

Kafka, Franz