Motivational Quotes

Youth

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

- Aiken, Conrad

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

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

Willa Cather

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

10.

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

Jung, Carl

11.

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

13.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Buck, Pearl S.

16.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

17.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

18.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

21.

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

Kafka, Franz

22.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

24.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

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

Little, Mary

28.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

29.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

30.

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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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

34.

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

Bumper Sticker

35.

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Euripides

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

40.

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

41.

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

Hafiz

42.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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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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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

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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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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