Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Eliot, T. S.

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Geraldy, Paul

10.

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

11.

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

12.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

13.

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 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

15.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

21.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

22.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

26.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

28.

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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

33.

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.

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

40.

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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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

45.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

46.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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