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

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Dave Barry

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Benchley, Robert

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Bible

13.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

15.

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

Picabia, Francis

16.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

19.

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

Miller, Henry

20.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

22.

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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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

24.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

25.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

26.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

W. H. Thompson

28.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

29.

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

Willa Cather

30.

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

Dickens, Charles

31.

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

32.

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.

33.

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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

46.

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

47.

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

Lindsey, Ben

49.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Those whom the gods love grow young.