Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Picabia, Francis

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

12.

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

13.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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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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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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

21.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

24.

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

26.

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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

28.

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

Bumper Sticker

29.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

30.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

31.

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

Dave Barry

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

34.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

35.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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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

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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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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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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.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

45.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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