Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

- Stevenson, Robert Louis

Best Quotes about Youth

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

Seneca

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Williams, Carey

18.

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Jung, Carl

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Euripides

23.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bible

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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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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

42.

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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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

44.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Geraldy, Paul

49.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

50.

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