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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Euripides

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

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

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.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Jung, Carl

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Little, Mary

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Williams, Carey

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

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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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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

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Coco Chanel

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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, 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

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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