Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Willa Cather

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Benchley, Robert

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Kafka, Franz

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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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

11.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Euripides

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

17.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

21.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Seneca

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

31.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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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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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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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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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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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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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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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 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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

46.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Lowell, James Russell