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

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

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

Little, Mary

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 is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

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

11.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

12.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

15.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

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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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.

18.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

19.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

20.

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

Proverb, French

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

25.

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

26.

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

Williams, Carey

27.

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

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

James M. Barrie

30.

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

Benchley, Robert

31.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

32.

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

Willa Cather

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

34.

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

Coco Chanel

35.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

36.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

37.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

38.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

39.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

40.

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

41.

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

42.

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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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

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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

47.

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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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

49.

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

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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