Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

10.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

11.

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

W. H. Thompson

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

13.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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

17.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Dave Barry

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

Hill, Aaron

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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

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

Seneca

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hafiz

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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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

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Pritchett, V. S.

46.

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

Bible

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