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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Willa Cather

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

12.

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

13.

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

Bumper Sticker

14.

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

Miller, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

20.

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

Little, Mary

21.

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

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

23.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

24.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

25.

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

Bible

26.

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

27.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

28.

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

W. H. Thompson

29.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Proverb, French

31.

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

Hafiz

32.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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, 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

36.

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

37.

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

Kafka, Franz

38.

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

James M. Barrie

39.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

40.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

41.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

42.

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

43.

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

Wade, H. V.

44.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

48.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

49.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

50.

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