Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Takuboku, Ishikawa

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

Bible

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

10.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

12.

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

13.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

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

16.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

17.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

19.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

20.

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

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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

22.

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.

23.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

25.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

27.

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

Miller, Henry

28.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

29.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

30.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

32.

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.

33.

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

Dave Barry

34.

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

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

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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.

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

Little, Mary

39.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

41.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

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

Eliot, T. S.

45.

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

Hafiz

46.

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

Picabia, Francis

47.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

50.

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