Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dave Barry

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

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

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

10.

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

11.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

12.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

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

16.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

17.

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

18.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

19.

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

Geraldy, Paul

20.

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

Picabia, Francis

21.

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

22.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

W. H. Thompson

29.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

30.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

37.

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

Euripides

38.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

39.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

James M. Barrie

42.

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

Kafka, Franz

43.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

44.

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

45.

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

Lindsey, Ben

46.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

Brookner, Anita

48.

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

Lowell, James Russell

49.

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

Bible

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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