Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Proverb, French

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

Shaw, George Bernard

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

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

Hafiz

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

10.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Brookner, Anita

16.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Lowell, James Russell

20.

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

21.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

22.

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

Coco Chanel

23.

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

24.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

25.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

26.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

27.

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

Euripides

28.

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

29.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

31.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

32.

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

James M. Barrie

33.

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

34.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

35.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

36.

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

Willa Cather

37.

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.

38.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

39.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

40.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

41.

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

42.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

43.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

44.

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

45.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

46.

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

47.

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

George Bernard Shaw

48.

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

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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

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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