Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Geraldy, Paul

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

Proverb, French

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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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.

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

Dave Barry

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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Little, Mary

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. H. Thompson

30.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Seneca

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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.

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris