Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Bible

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

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.

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

11.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

12.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

13.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

14.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Hill, Aaron

25.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

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

29.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

32.

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

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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

34.

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

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dave Barry

46.

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

49.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

50.

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