Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

12.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

13.

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

Lowell, James Russell

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Little, Mary

16.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

17.

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.

18.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

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

Dave Barry

22.

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

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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

24.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

25.

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

Willa Cather

26.

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

Miller, Henry

27.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

28.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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.

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

Bible

32.

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

Jung, Carl

33.

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

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

Kafka, Franz

35.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

37.

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

38.

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

39.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

40.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

41.

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

42.

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.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

44.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

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

46.

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

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

Dickens, Charles

48.

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.

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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

50.

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

Benchley, Robert