Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Proverb, French

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Little, Mary

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

Euripides

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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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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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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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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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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

24.

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

Williams, Carey

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

28.

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

Hafiz

29.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hill, Aaron

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Wade, H. V.

42.

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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

46.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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

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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

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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