Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hafiz

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Grillparzer, Franz

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

James M. Barrie

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

10.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

11.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

13.

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

14.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

16.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

17.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hill, Aaron

21.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

22.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

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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

27.

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

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

30.

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

31.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

32.

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

33.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

34.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

35.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

36.

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

Dickens, Charles

37.

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

Euripides

38.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

39.

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

Williams, Carey

40.

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

Willa Cather

41.

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

Wade, H. V.

42.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

45.

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

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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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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks