Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

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Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Bible

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Willa Cather

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bumper Sticker

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

10.

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

11.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

12.

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

George Bernard Shaw

13.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

14.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

15.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

Hill, Aaron

17.

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

18.

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

Dave Barry

19.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

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.

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

Williams, Carey

23.

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

W. H. Thompson

24.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

25.

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

26.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

30.

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

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

32.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

33.

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

Dickens, Charles

34.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

35.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

36.

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.

37.

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

Wade, H. V.

38.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

40.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

43.

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

44.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

45.

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

47.

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

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

49.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary