Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Willa Cather

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Dickens, Charles

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Williams, Carey

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

13.

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

Coco Chanel

14.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

15.

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

Miller, Henry

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Dave Barry

19.

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.

20.

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

21.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

22.

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

Euripides

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

26.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

27.

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

Kafka, Franz

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Benchley, Robert

35.

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

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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

37.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

38.

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

39.

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

Lowell, James Russell

40.

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

Bible

41.

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

42.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

43.

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

44.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

45.

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

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

47.

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

James M. Barrie

48.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

49.

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

Brookner, Anita

50.

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