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

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

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

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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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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Seneca

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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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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

38.

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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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Jung, Carl