189 Youthful Quotes

Following is our list of youthful quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about feeling youthful.

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Famous Youthful Quotes

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, like marigolds, toward the sunny side. — Jean Ingelow

Age considers; youth ventures. — Raupach

Youthfulness is not determined by age. It is determined by one's life force. One who possesses hope is forever young. One who continually advances is forever beautiful. — Daisaku Ikeda

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. - Karl Lagerfeld

Youthfulness is about how you live not when you were born. — Karl Lagerfeld

Youth comes but once in a lifetime. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Youth is happy because it has the capacity to see beauty. — Franz Kafka

Youth comes but once a life time. Perhaps, but it remains strong in many for their entire lives. — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The youth is the hope of our future. - Jose Rizal

The youth is the hope of our future. — Jose Rizal

That age is best which is the first When youth and blood are warmer. — Robert Herrick

Youth and vision make an unbeatable combination. — Toyotomi Hideyoshi

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy. — Alfred North Whitehead

Youth is but the painted shell within which, continually growing, lives that wondrous thing the spirit of a man, biding its moment of apparition, earlier in some than in others. — Lew Wallace

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

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope. — Aristotle

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. - Daniel Defoe

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay. — Daniel Defoe

Short Youthful Quotes

  • The duty of youth is to challenge corruption. — Kurt Cobain
  • You are only as young as your spine is flexible. — Joseph Pilates
  • Time may be a great healer, but it's a lousy beautician. — Dorothy Parker
  • Timeless, so age don't count in the booth When your flow stay submerged in the fountain of youth — Rakim
  • He who is of a calm and happy nature, will hardly feel the pressure of age — Plato
  • The pride of youth is in strength and beauty, the pride of old age is in discretion. — Democritus
  • I live in that solitude which is painful in youth, but delicious in the years of maturity. — Albert Einstein
  • To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck
  • Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
  • Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth — Mason Cooley

Youthful Image Quotes

Youthful quote Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. - George Bernard Shaw quote

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children. — George Bernard Shaw

Youthful quote The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike
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.
Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. - David Bowie quote

Pixies and Sonic Youth were so important to the eighties. — David Bowie

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. - Thomas Gray quote

Youth smiles without any reason. It is one of its chiefest charms. — Thomas Gray

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. - Scott Putesky quote

We were like psychedelic folk combined with Sonic Youth's noise. — Scott Putesky

Youthful quote The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
The foundation of every state is the education of its youth.
Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. - Marc Kielburger quote

Give young people a chance, our generation may just surprise you. — Marc Kielburger

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. - Diogenes quote

The foundation of every state is the education of its youth. — Diogenes

Youthful quote You're never too young to dream big.
You're never too young to dream big.

Stay Youthful Quotes

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to. — Bill Vaughan

I am happy to note that the BJP as an organization is looking to creatively harness Power of Social Media. We have to ensure our Youth stays engaged in our Democratic process. We have to make our Democratic process accessible to them. Social media is an important tool for this. — Narendra Modi

I am not young enough to know everything. — James M. Barrie

Youthful quote The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.
The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. — Rosalyn Sussman Yalow

At 50, don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. Happy 50th birthday. — H. H. Asquith

You are never too old to become younger! — Mae West

Youthful quote Age is a matter if feeling, not of years.
Age is a matter if feeling, not of years.

If you're pursuing something that you love and you're learning something new, every day, that's the key to youth [staying young]. — Dave Bautista

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. — Samuel Ullman

In the central place of every heart, there is a recording chamber; so long as it receives messages of beauty, hope, cheer and courage, you are young. — Samuel Ullman

The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind. — Mortimer Collins

Feeling Youthful Quotes

I'm not bothered by the paparazzi and I don't feel hemmed in, I've never felt that. My youth, mind you, there wasn't quite the same attention to celebrities as there is now, but I've never felt that. — Albert Finney

Under this flag may our youth find new inspiration for loyalty to Canada; for a patriotism based not on any mean or narrow nationalism, but on the deep and equal pride that all Canadians will feel for every part of this good land. — Lester B. Pearson

More than ever I find myself in the hands of God. This (illness) is what I have wanted all my life from my youth. But now there is a difference; the initiative is entirely with God. It is indeed a profound spiritual experience to know and feel myself so totally in God’s hands. — Pedro Arrupe

Sex appeal is a wonderful, warm, womanly healthy feeling . . . it comes only from inside, it's from nothing that's manufactured. It has nothing to do with measurements or lipstick color. To me, it's cleanliness, and youth, an effervescent desire to enjoy life. — Jayne Mansfield

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

Strum your guitar sing it kid Just write about your feelings not the things you never did Inexperience, it once had cursed me But your youth is no handicap it's what makes you thirsty — Harry Chapin

I feel close to the rebelliousness of the youth here. Perhaps time will seperate us, but nobody can deny that here, behind the windows of Manchester, there is an insane love of football, of celebration and of music. — Eric Cantona

I feel the denial of gay marriage sends a prejudice message. Our youth deserve a fair and hopeful future with government that values us equally. — Lady Gaga

The real feeling of youth comes when we actually think in the consciousness of youth and give the realization of the now to every thought. — Christian D. Larson

Learning to code makes kids feel empowered, creative, and confident. If we want our young women to retain these traits into adulthood, a great option is to expose them to computer programming in their youth. — Susan Wojcicki

Youthful Love Quotes

Youth fades, love droops, the leaves of friendship fall; A mother's secret hope outlives them all. — Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. - William Shakespeare

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. — William Shakespeare

The songs that I've written about Africa, and AIDS and HIV and about the power of humanitarian love, those songs, I'm gonna sing them because I know that it's real. — India.Arie

We are not youth any longer. We don’t want to take the world by storm. We are fleeing. We fly from ourselves. From our life. We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces. — Erich Maria Remarque

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading. — Rufus Choate

All I have to say is, Love one another - that is the height of all philosophy. It is beyond all religions. It is the secret of joy - the fountain of Perpetual Youth - the only rainbow on life's dark cloud. — Robert Green Ingersoll

Being young isn't about age, it's about being a free spirit. You can meet someone of 20 who's boring and old, or you can meet someone of 70 who's youthful and exciting. I met Fred Astaire when he was 72 and I was 21, and I fell in love with him. He certainly was a free spirit. — Sayings

Youth and what the Italians so prettily call stamina. The vigor, the fire, that enables you to love and create. When you've lost that, you've lost everything. — Simone de Beauvoir

Don't you long to shout to those youths who are bustling around you: Fools! Leave those worldly things that shackle the heart - and very often degrade it - leave all that and come with us in search of Love! — Josemaria Escriva

I love looking at you, hundred-year-old tree, loaded with shoots and boughs as though you were a stripling. Teach me the secret of growing old like you, open to life, to youth, to dreams, as somebody aware that youth and age are merely steps towards eternity. — Hélder Câmara

Youthful Skin Quotes

Age is a peculiar kind of thief. It slips up on you and steps inside your skin and is so quiet and methodical in its work that you never realize it has stolen your youth until you look into the mirror one morning and see a man you don't recognize. — James Lee Burke

Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Selfishness, narcissism, being uncomfortable in your own skin, not feeling connected to the world around you, feeling dislocated from family and youth, having a strange relationship with your childhood - all those things feel really true to me. — Jason Reitman

Anyway, what makes people look youthful is the quality of their skin and I don't think you can change that. — Nigella Lawson

It's my job to accept my youth, to spread my story, to let people know who I am as an individual, because there's so many people who are blinded and think less of me because of my skin color. — Khalid

Youth, then, once ballyhooed as the epicenter of fun, hot dogs, hot sex, and marvelous dope-smoking good times, is now defined as follows: that period before death, characterized by smooth skin and ill-formed ideas. — Marilyn Suzanne Miller

I am always keen to discover something new, but my advice is always to exfoliate. Get rid of those dead, dry cells; then the new skin is ready for moisturising, and you find your inner dewy, youthful glow. Its in there somewhere. — Lulu

My mom didn't use face cream, like, nothing at all. She's got great skin and looks very youthful. — Lara Stone

We need a legal code that develops like our skin during our growing years. Something both youthful and strong... So what we humans birth might surpass without oppressing us. — Odysseas Elytis

Youth Life Quotes

Youths are passed through schools that don’t teach, then forced to search for jobs that don’t exist and finally left stranded in the street to stare at the glamorous lives advertised around them. — Huey Newton

Drink wine. This is life eternal. This is all that youth will give you. It is the season for wine, roses and drunken friends. Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life. — Omar Khayyam

The secret of life is to let every segment of it produce its own yield at its own pace. Every period has something new to teach us. The harvest of youth is achievement; the harvest of middle-age is perspective; the harvest of age is wisdom; the harvest of life is serenity. — Joan D. Chittister

What does the money machine eat? It eats youth, spontaneity, life, beauty, and, above all, it eats creativity. It eats quality and sh*ts quantity. — William S. Burroughs

By the proper intakes of vitamins and other nutrients and by following a few other healthful practices from youth or middle age on, you can, I believe, extend your life and years of well-being by twenty-five or even thirty-five years. — Linus Pauling

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. - Dean Smith

What to do with a mistake: recognize it, admit it, learn from it, forget it. — Dean Smith

There is nothing can pay one for that invaluable ignorance which is the companion of youth, those sanguine groundless hopes, and that lively vanity which makes all the happiness of life. — Mary Wortley Montagu

The only true voyage of discovery, . . . would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes. — Marcel Proust

The experience of helping a fellow man in danger, or even of training in a realistic manner to be ready to give this help, tends to change the balance of power in a youth's inner life with the result that compassion can become the master motive. — Kurt Hahn

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. — Louisa May Alcott

Age And Youth Quotes

Travel is a caprice in childhood, a passion in youth, a necessity in manhood, and an elegy in old age. — Jose Rizal

I want you to know that also I will not make age an issue of this campaign. I am not going to exploit, for political purposes, my opponent's youth and inexperience. — Ronald Reagan

Youth ages, immaturity is outgrown, ignorance can be educated, and drunkenness sobered, but stupid lasts forever. — Aristophanes

A forest can’t see the darkness within it and nor does youth show on old age. — Romanian Proverbs

We used to think that aging was a lot like, as if we were cars made fresh and youthful and then we've entered this breakdown in diet. What we didn't realize until recently is that we're much more complex than a car. We fix ourselves if we're broken. — David Sinclair

Age and treachery will overcome youth and skill — Fausto Coppi

Wherever there is power, there is age. Don't be deceived by dimples and curls. I tell you that babe is a thousand years old. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

India has known the innocence and insouciance of childhood, the passion and abandon of youth, and the ripe wisdom of maturity that comes from long experience of pain and pleasure; and over and over a gain she has renewed her childhood and youth and age — Jawaharlal Nehru

In childhood be modest, in youth temperate, in adulthood just, and in old age prudent. — Socrates

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim

Age Of Youth Quotes

The old age of an eagle is better than the youth of the sparrow — Greek Proverbs

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. - Garson Kanin

Youth is the gift of nature, but age is a work of art. — Garson Kanin

Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth. — W. Somerset Maugham

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. — Percy Wynham Lewis

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. — Wyndham Lewis

I am often asked why I started to write poetry. The answer is that my motivation sprang from a visceral need to creatively articulate the experiences of the black youth of my generation, coming of age in a racist society. — Linton Kwesi Johnson

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age. — George Eliot

The error of youth is to believe that intelligence is a substitute for experience, while the error of age is to believe experience is a substitute for intelligence. — Lyman Bryson

It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth. — Helen Garner

The excitement of learning separates youth from old age. As long as you're learning you're not old. — Rosalyn S. Yalow

Youth And Old Age Quotes

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little. — Sheila Kaye-Smith

Every man desires to live long, but no man wishes to be old. — Jonathan Swift

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

I have three best friends in this world. What's surprising is that they also happen to be your (audience) three best friends. They are Bachpan (childhood), Jawani (Youth) and Budhapa (old age). — Kishore Kumar

When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not; but my faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. It is sad to go to pieces like this but we all have to do it. — Mark Twain

Every old man complains of the growing depravity of the world, of the petulance and insolence of the rising generation. — Samuel Johnson

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

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay, it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world. — Lydia Maria Child

My faculties are decaying now and soon I shall be so I cannot remember any but the things that never happened. — Mark Twain

Old age is fifteen years older than I am. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Inspirational Youth Quotes

If the truth is told, the youth can grow Then learn to survive until they gain control Nobody says you have to be gangstas, hoes Read more learn more, change the globe — Nas

Be Young, Be Dope,
Be Proud. - Lana Del Rey

Be Young, Be Dope, Be Proud. — Lana Del Rey

Basketball is a game that gives you every chance to be great, and puts every pressure on you to prove that you haven't got what it takes. It never takes away the chance, and it never eases up on the pressure. — Bob Sundvold

Keep true to the dreams of your youth. — Friedrich Schiller

Confidence is believing in yourself. Arrogance is telling others you’re better than they are. Confidence inspires. Arrogance destroys. — Simon Sinek

A primary object should be the education of our youth in the science of government. In a republic, what species of knowledge can be equally important? And what duty more pressing than communicating it to those who are to be the future guardians of the liberties of the country? — George Washington

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. — Bob Harper

That's what being young is all about. You have the courage and the daring to think that you can make a difference. You're not prone to measure your energies in time. You're not likely to live by equations. — Ruby Dee

Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old. — Frank Lloyd Wright

Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind, and soul. — Amit Ray

Youth Quotes

The value of three things is justly appreciated by all classes of men: youth, by the old; health, by the diseased; and wealth, by the needy. — Omar Khayyam

If yet your blood does not rage, then it is water that flows in your veins. For what is the flush of youth, if it is not of service to the motherland. — Chandra Shekhar Azad

I can see both trends among the youths: people who are ready for a constructive, critical and active presence, and others who are ready to become invisible Muslims and to compromise to be accepted. I put my hope in the former and pray for the latter. — Tariq Ramadan

Do not be proud of wealth, people, relations and friends, or youth. All these are snatched by time in the blink of an eye. Giving up this illusory world, know and attain the Supreme. — Adi Shankara

I see no hope for the future of our people if they are dependent on the frivolous youth of today, for certainly all youth are reckless beyond words. When I was a boy, we were taught to be discrete and respectful of elders, but the present youth are exceedingly wise and impatient of restraint. — Hesiod

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

To .. all the dispossessed youth of Africa: for perpetuation of communion with ancestral spirits through the fight for African freedom, and in the firm faith that the dead, the living, and the unborn will unite to rebuild the destroyed shrines. — Jomo Kenyatta

From my earliest youth, I have known that while one is obliged to plan with care the stages of one's journey, one is entitled to dream, and keep dreaming, of its destination. — Shimon Peres

I believe in a world of justice and human rights for all. A world where girls can grow up free of fear of abuse. A world where women are treated with the respect and dignity that is their right. A world where poverty is not acceptable. My dear young friends, you can make this your world. — Ban Ki-moon

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

Fountain Of Youth Quotes

There is no fountain of youth, What you put into your body is what you get out of it. You would not feed your dog a coffee and doughnut for breakfast followed by a cigarette. You will kill the damn dog. — Jack LaLanne

The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind. - Jerry Hall

The real fountain of youth is to have a dirty mind. — Jerry Hall

Bodybuilding is the closest we have to the fountain of youth. — Lee Labrada

There is no pill for longevity or a fountain of youth. The Danish Twin Study established that only about 30% of how long the average person lives is dictated by our genes, the other 80% is dictated by our lifestyle and environment. — Dan Buettner

The Ramones own the fountain of youth. Experiencing us is like having the fountain of youth. — Joey Ramone

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts. — Josephine Baker

Nutritional excellence is the only real fountain of youth. — Joel Fuhrman

Possibility-thinking is the long sought-after fountain of youth. — Robert H. Schuller

Women of forty always fancy they have found the Fountain of Youth, and that they remain young in the midst of the ruins of their day. — Arsene Houssaye

Appalachia is still, for American musicians, a kind of fountain of youth we always go back to, the old home place to a group of artists who represent the quintessence of American independence, fortitude, genius, and madness. — Paul Burch

Youth Funny Quotes

To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable. — Oscar Wilde

Youth is a disease from which we all recover. — Dorothy Fuldheim

Grow old along with me! The best is yet to be, the last of life, for which the first was made. Our times are in his hand who saith, 'A whole I planned, youth shows but half; Trust God: See all, nor be afraid! — Robert Browning

I don't see teenagers anymore. I see... I see youths. Slumped S shapes in their hoodies, all huddled round a bin of burning grannies. All texting eachother because they've given up on speech. — Dylan Moran

I promised myself that if ever I had some money that I would savor a cigar each day after lunch and dinner. This is the only resolution of my youth that I have kept, and the only realized ambition which has not brought disillusion. — W. Somerset Maugham

You've heard of the three ages of man - youth, age, and you are looking wonderful. — Francis Spellman

Whoever, in middle age, attempts to realize the wishes and hopes of his early youth, invariably deceives himself. Each ten years of a man's life has its own fortunes, its own hopes, its own desires. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I never took the game home with me. I always left it in some bar. — Bob Lemon

The young, free to act on their initiative, can lead their elders in the direction of the unknown... The children, the young, must ask the questions that we would never think to ask, but enough trust must be re-established so that the elders will be permitted to work with them on the answers. — Margaret Mead

Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable, precisely, the balance and wisdom that come from long perspectives and broad foundations — George Santayana

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More Youthful Quotes

Our youth must be steadfast and take advantage of the benefits of modern civilization. Do not fall prey to idleness for it shall be a curse to you and to succeeding generations. You must set yourselves us as examples of determination and hard work. Plan your time and use both your physical and mental powers purposefully and productively. — Haile Selassie

We must cherish our inheritance. We must preserve our nationality for the youth of our future. The story should be written down to pass on. — Louis Riel

As the young leaders of tomorrow, you have the passion and energy and commitment to make a difference. What I'd like to really urge you do is to have a global vision. Go beyond your country; go beyond your national boundaries — Ban Ki-moon

The present map of Palestine was drawn by the British mandate. The Jewish people have another map which our youth and adults should strive to fulfill: from the Nile to the Euphrates. — David Ben-Gurion

I only debate with serious political youth formations. Not a group of the racist Helen Zille's garden boys. — Julius Malema

Truthfulness is a cornerstone in character, and if it be not firmly laid in youth, there will ever after be a weak spot in the foundation. — Jefferson Davis

If photographers are responsible for creating or reflecting an image of women in society, then I must say, there is only one way for the future, and this is to define women as strong and independent. This should be the responsibility of photographers today: to free women, and finally everyone, from the terror of youth and perfection. — Peter Lindbergh

You have to work and think about how we can make this world a better place for all. This is what I'd really like to ask our young leaders. We will try as leaders of today to minimise the problems which we will hand over to you. But it is to you. You have to take ownership and leadership of tomorrow. For that to be possible, you have to strengthen your capacity and widen your vision as a global citizen. — Ban Ki-moon

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