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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Wade, H. V.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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

11.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

12.

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

13.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

14.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

15.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

16.

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

17.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

18.

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

19.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

20.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

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

Hill, Aaron

27.

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

Little, Mary

28.

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

James M. Barrie

29.

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

30.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

32.

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

Bible

33.

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

34.

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

Dave Barry

35.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

36.

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

Euripides

37.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

39.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

40.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

41.

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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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

43.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

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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

46.

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

Proverb, French

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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

48.

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

49.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

50.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.