Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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

Euripides

11.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

12.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

13.

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

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

15.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

16.

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

17.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

18.

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

19.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

20.

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

James M. Barrie

21.

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

22.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Bumper Sticker

27.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

28.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

29.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

31.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Williams, Carey

35.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

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

40.

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

41.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

43.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

44.

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

Miller, Henry

45.

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

46.

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

47.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

48.

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

Willa Cather

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