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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Bible

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

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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 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.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Jung, Carl

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Euripides

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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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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

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Williams, Carey

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

Proverb, French

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

Little, Mary

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