Motivational Quotes

Youth

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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

Jung, Carl

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

Little, Mary

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

James M. Barrie

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

Wade, H. V.

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

10.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

12.

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

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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

14.

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

Hill, Aaron

16.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

19.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

20.

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

21.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Lindsey, Ben

27.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

28.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

32.

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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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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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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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

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

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

43.

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.

44.

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

Dave Barry

45.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Williams, Carey

49.

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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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