Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lowell, James Russell

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

11.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

14.

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

15.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Bible

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

21.

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

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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

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

24.

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

25.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Little, Mary

29.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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.

32.

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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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