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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Bible

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

Little, Mary

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Coco Chanel

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

10.

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

11.

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

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

13.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

14.

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

15.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

16.

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

Wade, H. V.

17.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

18.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

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

20.

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

21.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

22.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

23.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

24.

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

25.

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

26.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

27.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

29.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

34.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Bumper Sticker

39.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

41.

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

Kafka, Franz

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

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

44.

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

45.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

47.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

48.

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

49.

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

Dave Barry

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry