Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Benchley, Robert

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Hafiz

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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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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dickens, Charles

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Dave Barry

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

Seneca

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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