Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

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

Little, Mary

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

15.

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

Dave Barry

16.

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

17.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

18.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

21.

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

22.

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 is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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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

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

26.

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

27.

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

W. H. Thompson

28.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

29.

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

Hill, Aaron

31.

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

Bible

32.

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

33.

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.

34.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

35.

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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

39.

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

40.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

43.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

44.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

45.

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

46.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

48.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

49.

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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis