Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Youth

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Little, Mary

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

10.

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

11.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

12.

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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

17.

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

Euripides

18.

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

19.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

20.

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

21.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

22.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

24.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

30.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

31.

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

Bumper Sticker

32.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

33.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

34.

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

35.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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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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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

39.

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

W. H. Thompson

40.

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

41.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

43.

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.

44.

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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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

49.

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

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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