Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

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Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

11.

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

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

14.

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

15.

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

Eliot, T. S.

16.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

17.

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

19.

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

Euripides

20.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

23.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

24.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Hill, Aaron

26.

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.

27.

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

Wade, H. V.

28.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

29.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

30.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

31.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

32.

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

33.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

34.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

35.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Lindsey, Ben

39.

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

40.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

41.

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

Willa Cather

42.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

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

44.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

45.

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

46.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

48.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

49.

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

W. H. Thompson

50.

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

Little, Mary