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 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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

11.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

13.

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

14.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

23.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

24.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

25.

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

26.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

27.

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

Bible

28.

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

29.

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.

30.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

31.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

35.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

36.

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

37.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

38.

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

Williams, Carey

39.

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

40.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

41.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

42.

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

43.

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

George Bernard Shaw

44.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

45.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

46.

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