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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

Williams, Carey

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

Proverb, French

10.

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

11.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

12.

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

Hafiz

14.

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

Benchley, Robert

15.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

16.

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

Wade, H. V.

17.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

18.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

19.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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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

21.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

29.

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

30.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

31.

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

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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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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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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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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Geraldy, Paul

42.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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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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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

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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa