Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Seneca

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

15.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. H. Thompson

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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.

20.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Proverb, French

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

30.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Little, Mary

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