Motivational Quotes

Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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

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

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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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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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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]

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.