Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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

Miller, Henry

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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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 are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Proverb, French

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Picabia, Francis

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Brookner, Anita

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Dave Barry