Motivational Quotes

Youth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

11.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

13.

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

14.

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

15.

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

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

20.

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

Seneca

21.

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

Williams, Carey

22.

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

23.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

24.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

25.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

26.

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

27.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

28.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

30.

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.

31.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

32.

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

Bible

33.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

34.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

35.

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

Proverb, French

36.

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

37.

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

Miller, Henry

38.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

40.

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

41.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

42.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

45.

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

46.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

47.

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

48.

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

49.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

50.

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.