Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lowell, James Russell

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

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

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Hafiz

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

11.

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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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

13.

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

Proverb, French

14.

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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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

16.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

17.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

18.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

19.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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

24.

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

25.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

26.

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

Dave Barry

27.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

28.

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

29.

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

30.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

31.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

34.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

38.

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

Jung, Carl

39.

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

Bible

40.

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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

45.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

46.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

48.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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.