Motivational Quotes

Youth

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]

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Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hafiz

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Proverb, French

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

10.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

12.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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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

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

Euripides

18.

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

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

Coco Chanel

20.

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

Little, Mary

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

24.

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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Bible

26.

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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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

28.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

30.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

31.

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

Bible

32.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

33.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

34.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

36.

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

Brookner, Anita

38.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

40.

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.

41.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

42.

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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

44.

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

45.

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

46.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

47.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

48.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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