We all need motivation from time to time, especially entrepreneurs. Check out this compilation of youth quotes to give you a burst of inspiration! These young people have wisdom beyond their years and will inspire you to achieve your goals. So get pumped up and ready to take on the world!
“If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” – Lewis Carroll
“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“When you stand up to be counted tell the world this is my voice.” -Shannon Hoon
“All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them.
The best youth quotes
1. Where youthful beauty is unconscious, mature beauty is knowing and sophisticated. — Sophia Loren
2. For we cannot tarry here, We must march my darlings, we must bear the brunt of danger, We, the youthful sinewy races, all the rest on us depend, Pioneers! O pioneers! — Walt Whitman
3. Age, I do abhor thee, youth, I do adore thee. — William Shakespeare
4. I’ve been accused of having a death wish but I think it’s life that I wish for, terribly, shamelessly, on any terms whatsoever. — Tennessee Williams, Sweet Bird of Youth
5. Bringing in innovation and youth is not a bad thing: it is a courageous choice. — Paolo Maldini
6. I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
7. I am afraid that the schools will prove the very gates of hell, unless they diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures and engraving them in the heart of the youth. — Martin Luther
8. By innocence I swear, and by my youth, I have one heart, one bosom, and one truth, And that no woman has, nor never none Shall mistress be of it save I alone. — William Shakespeare
9. …youth looks good in anything — unpleasant details lose themselves against the unabating vigour of youth…
10. I want to be In love wIth youthe same wayI am In love wIth the moonwIth the lIghtshInIngout of Its soul. — Sanober Khan
11. I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
12. In youth audacity is wise — William Allingham, Blackberries
13. O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love–lit bower. — Pablo Neruda
14. Age has been the perfect fire extinguisher for flaming youth. — Navjot Singh Sidhu
15. Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers. — Peter David, Sir Apropos of Nothing
16. A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight. — Robertson Davies
17. In my youth I had three teachers: friends, enemies, and books. In my adulthood I had three professors: God, nature, and life. — Matshona Dhliwayo
18. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou must, ‘ The youth whispers, ‘I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: Poems
19. For though the camomile, the more it is trodden on the faster it grows, yet youth, the more it is wasted, the sooner it wears. — William Shakespeare
20. To those of you who are enslaved by your past, may my story set you free. For youth is innocent and its beauty is to always be cherished. — Nancy B. Brewer, The House with the Red Light
21. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. — Plato
22. Ah sorts of allowances are made for the illusions of youth and none or almost none for the disenchantments of age. — Robert Louis Stevenson
23. Great is Youth––equally great is Old Age––great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth––great is Poverty––great is Expression–great is Silence. — Walt Whitman
24. He thought of his wife, of his son, of his youth. He thought of life. He thought of death and then he thought of life again. — Teodor Flonta, A Luminous Future
25. So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, ‘Thou must, ‘ The youth whispers, ‘I can. — Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson: Poems
26. The young student sits with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth’s dreamland; where prose is prowling on the desk and poetry hiding in the heart. — Rabindranath Tagore
27. O happy childhood! blessed youth! But once we know thy potent power; But once we live all careless free; No cross to mar our love–lit bower. — Pablo Neruda
28. I must say that the tasks of the youth in general, and of the Young Communist Leagues and all other organisations in particular, might be summed up in a single word: learn. — Vladimir Lenin
29. I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood’s cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
30. Youth is wholly experimental. — Robert Louis Stevenson
31. George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie. — Mark Twain
32. For I have learned to look on nature, not as in the hour of thoughtless youth, but hearing oftentimes the still, sad music of humanity. — William Wordsworth
33. Everybody’s youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
34. The affections cannot keep their youth any more than men. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
35. Youth is incredible because you really do feel invincible. — Paul Stanley
36. Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. — Ziad K. Abdelnour
37. The youth of France do not want a new neo–liberal contract. — Peter Hall
38. When you’re in college you haven’t had that much life. Parents, school, assorted youth activities–that’s about it. — Martha Moody, Best Friends
39. Education is the food of youth, the delight of old age, the ornament of prosperity, the refuge and comfort of adversity, and the provocation to grace in the soul. — Saint Augustine
40. The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe. — Rachel Weisz
41. The happiest days of my youth were when my brother and I would run through the woods and feel quite safe. — Rachel Weisz
42. A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with. — Robert Browning
43. We have a powerful potential in out youth, and we must have the courage to change old ideas and practices so that we may direct their power toward good ends. — Mary McLeod Bethune
44. Lyric writing is an interesting process in Sonic Youth. There’s three people writing now, and we’ve all had a lot of interest and involvement with expression through words. — Thurston Moore
45. Do me a favour and go out and perform one of the activities I hear the youth enjoy this Friday, like defacing public property. — Sarah Rees Brennan, Unspoken
46. It was impossible to understand how brief it is. It seemed like youth would last so long — it would last forever. But it’s just a blink.
47. Because of our youthful population, we suffer from unemployment in Iran. We need more universities and more job opportunities for the young. — Shirin Ebadi
48. He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. — Plato
49. The heart is the real fountain of youth. — Mark Twain
50. Today the world changes so quickly that in growing up we take leave not just of youth but of the world we were young in. — Peter Medawar
Conclusion
Youth is a valuable resource that should be cherished, celebrated and nurtured. Our young generations are the future leaders of tomorrow and as such, it is important to make sure that they are supported and given the opportunity to reach their full potential. Youth is a time of exploration and growth, and the quotes above are a reminder of that. They remind us to make the most of our youth, to seize the day, and to never lose sight of our dreams.