Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Benchley, Robert

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Geraldy, Paul

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Seneca

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

Jung, Carl

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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.

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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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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.

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Euripides

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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

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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

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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

31.

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

Bible

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.