Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Seneca

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

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

10.

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

11.

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

12.

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

13.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

14.

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

15.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

16.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

17.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

18.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

19.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

20.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

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

22.

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

23.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

26.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

Geraldy, Paul

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

31.

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

Hill, Aaron

32.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

33.

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

Wade, H. V.

34.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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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.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Williams, Carey

38.

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

40.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

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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

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

45.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.