Motivational Quotes

Youth

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

- Browning, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Seneca

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

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

Bible

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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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

14.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Hafiz

29.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

31.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

32.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 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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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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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Dave Barry

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

Hill, Aaron

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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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