Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Takuboku, Ishikawa

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Geraldy, Paul

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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.

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

10.

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

11.

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

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12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

13.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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.

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

Seneca

16.

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

17.

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

18.

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

19.

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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

22.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

23.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

24.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

25.

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

26.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

28.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

29.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

30.

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

Dave Barry

31.

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

32.

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

Dickens, Charles

33.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Miller, Henry

38.

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

Hafiz

39.

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

George Bernard Shaw

40.

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

Proverb, French

41.

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

42.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

43.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

44.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

45.

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

46.

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

47.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

48.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.

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