Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Hafiz

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

12.

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

13.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

14.

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

W. H. Thompson

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

17.

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

18.

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

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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

20.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

25.

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

Coco Chanel

26.

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

Dave Barry

27.

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

Jung, Carl

28.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

29.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

30.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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.

32.

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

Eliot, T. S.

33.

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

Wade, H. V.

34.

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

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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

36.

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

Little, Mary

37.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

39.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

40.

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

Kafka, Franz

41.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

42.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

43.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

46.

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

47.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

48.

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

49.

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

Miller, Henry

50.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger