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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

Little, Mary

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

Willa Cather

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

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

12.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

13.

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

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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

15.

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

16.

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

Wade, H. V.

17.

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

18.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

19.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

20.

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

James M. Barrie

21.

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

22.

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

Lindsey, Ben

23.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

24.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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

27.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

28.

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

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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.

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

38.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

39.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

40.

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

Seneca

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Benchley, Robert

45.

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

Williams, Carey

46.

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

47.

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.

48.

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.

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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

50.

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

Dickens, Charles