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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Williams, Carey

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

Euripides

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

10.

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

Jung, Carl

11.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

12.

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

Proverb, French

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

14.

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

Geraldy, Paul

15.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

17.

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

Benchley, Robert

18.

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

Little, Mary

19.

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

20.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

21.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

22.

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

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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

24.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

25.

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

Brookner, Anita

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

30.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

33.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

34.

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

35.

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

Miller, Henry

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

40.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

41.

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

Bible

42.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

43.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

44.

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

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

46.

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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare