Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

10.

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

Bible

11.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

12.

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

13.

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

Brookner, Anita

14.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

15.

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

James M. Barrie

16.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

18.

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

Coco Chanel

19.

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

Hafiz

20.

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

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

23.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

26.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

27.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

28.

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

Bumper Sticker

29.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

30.

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

Willa Cather

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

34.

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

Dave Barry

35.

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

Kafka, Franz

36.

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

37.

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

Williams, Carey

38.

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

39.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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

43.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

44.

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

Benchley, Robert

45.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.