Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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

13.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Livingston, Richard W.

18.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

Coco Chanel

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Dave Barry

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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

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

Bible

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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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 denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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