Motivational Quotes

Youth

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Seneca

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

22.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Coco Chanel

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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.

25.

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

W. H. Thompson

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

31.

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

32.

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

33.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

35.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

38.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

40.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

42.

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

Bible

43.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

49.

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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We have some salt of our youth in us.