Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Chesterfield, Lord

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Williams, Carey

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

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

10.

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

11.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

Bible

14.

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

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

Proverb, French

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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 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

26.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Seneca

28.

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

Dave Barry

29.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

31.

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

32.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

33.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

35.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

37.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hafiz

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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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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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Hill, Aaron