Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Willa Cather

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

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

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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

10.

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

Proverb, French

11.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

12.

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

Benchley, Robert

13.

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

14.

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.

15.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

16.

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

Bible

17.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

19.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

20.

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

Hafiz

21.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

22.

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

23.

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

Lindsey, Ben

24.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

30.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

31.

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

Lowell, James Russell

32.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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

34.

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

35.

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

George Bernard Shaw

36.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

38.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

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

40.

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

42.

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

James M. Barrie

43.

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

Seneca

44.

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

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.

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

47.

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

48.

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

Brookner, Anita

49.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

50.

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.