Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hafiz

Best Quotes about Youth

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Seneca

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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 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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

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

Little, Mary

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

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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

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Proverb, French

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

40.

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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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

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth