Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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]

Bible

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Dave Barry

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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

14.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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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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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 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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bible

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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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

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

Willa Cather

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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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Jung, Carl

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

Lindsey, Ben

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, French

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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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