Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

Lindsey, Ben

13.

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.

14.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

15.

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

17.

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

Hafiz

18.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

19.

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

Picabia, Francis

20.

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

Euripides

21.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

22.

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

Hill, Aaron

24.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

25.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

27.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

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

31.

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

32.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

33.

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

Kafka, Franz

34.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

35.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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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

40.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Williams, Carey

44.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

45.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.