Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dave Barry

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Bible

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

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

Euripides

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Willa Cather

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

10.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

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

Kafka, Franz

12.

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

13.

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

Jung, Carl

14.

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

15.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

16.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

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

19.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

20.

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

21.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

22.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

W. H. Thompson

31.

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

32.

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

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

35.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

36.

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

37.

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.

38.

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.

39.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

40.

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

Picabia, Francis

41.

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

42.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

44.

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

Coco Chanel

45.

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.

46.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Little, Mary