Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Coco Chanel

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

Seneca

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

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

10.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

12.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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.

14.

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

James M. Barrie

15.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

16.

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

17.

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

Willa Cather

18.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

19.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

20.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

21.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

23.

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.

24.

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

25.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

27.

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

28.

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

Dickens, Charles

29.

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

30.

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

31.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

32.

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

33.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

34.

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.

35.

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

Little, Mary

36.

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

Bible

37.

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

38.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

39.

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

Eliot, T. S.

40.

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

Lowell, James Russell

41.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

42.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

43.

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

44.

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

Hafiz

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

50.

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