Motivational Quotes

Youth

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

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.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

10.

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

11.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

15.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

Hafiz

17.

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

Coco Chanel

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

21.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

22.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

24.

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

Geraldy, Paul

25.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

27.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

Williams, Carey

29.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

35.

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

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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

39.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

40.

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

Brookner, Anita

41.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

42.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

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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

45.

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

46.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

48.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

49.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

50.

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