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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Bible

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Euripides

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

10.

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

11.

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

Picabia, Francis

12.

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

Wade, H. V.

13.

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

Willa Cather

14.

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

Williams, Carey

15.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

16.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

17.

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

Hill, Aaron

18.

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

Hafiz

19.

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

20.

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

Kafka, Franz

21.

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

22.

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

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.

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

25.

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.

26.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Little, Mary

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

34.

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

Benchley, Robert

35.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

36.

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

37.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

38.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Coco Chanel

40.

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.

41.

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

Bumper Sticker

42.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

43.

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.

44.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

45.

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

46.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

Jung, Carl

50.

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

Miller, Henry