Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Brookner, Anita

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

12.

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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

19.

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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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 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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Bible

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