Youthful Mindset Quotes

Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life. Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people grow old by deserting their ideals.

Growing old is compulsory - growing up is optional.

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

I'm actually a perpetual 13-year-old. I've never advanced beyond 13. Every day, tomorrow is my 14th birthday. That's my kind of humor.

Never let an old person live in your body.

Old men are always young enough to learn with profit.

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.

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life is only beginning. I think that is the only way to keep adding to one's talent, and one's inner happiness.

I've got a young mind.

Scientists never stop asking. They're little kids who never grew up.

I've never been more than 9 years old.

I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

I just like being a kid. I enjoy it, I don't want to grow up.

Inside, I feel 30ish - I'm childish and optimistic.

Everybody thinks you reach a certain age and you're a grownup, but it's not true. Nobody grows up until the day they croak.

Fifty - it's going to be for the rest of my life. I'm going to count myself as a 50-year-old, sing like I'm 50, and act like I am, too. That's how I feel, and I believe if you have that frame of mind, it keeps you young.

Never say you are too old. You do not say it now, perhaps; but by and by, when the hair grows gray and the eyes grow dim and the young despair comes to curse the old age, you will say, "It is too late for me." Never too late! Never too old! How old are you--thirty, fifty, eighty? What is that in immortality? We are but children.

You never think you're as old as you're ever going to get.

I like to keep the median age in my lab low because they will indulge me in my dreams. They don't yet think things are impossible.

I've got the rest of my life to be a grown-up. And for now, it's OK to be young.

I like to think that I'm not old yet.

...I'll continue to see things as a child. It's not so far to fall.

Adults are just obsolete children and the hell with them.

I'm just too busy living every day to really spend a lot of time thinking 'am I old?' I'm this age. I am in this moment and in this life.