Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has become a class.

- Vadim, Roger

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Bible

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Williams, Carey

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

Kafka, Franz

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

14.

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

15.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

16.

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

17.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

18.

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

19.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

20.

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

Bumper Sticker

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

22.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

23.

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

James M. Barrie

24.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

25.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

28.

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

Geraldy, Paul

29.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

30.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

31.

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

32.

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

Little, Mary

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

41.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

44.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

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

Dave Barry

46.

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

47.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

Brookner, Anita

49.

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

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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