Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Williams, Carey

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

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

Hafiz

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

Seneca

11.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

13.

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

14.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

15.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

16.

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

Jung, Carl

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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

Proverb, French

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

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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

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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

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.

27.

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

Hill, Aaron

29.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Bible

37.

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

Dave Barry

38.

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

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Brookner, Anita

41.

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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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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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Little, Mary

45.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

46.

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

Coco Chanel

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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

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson