Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, French

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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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

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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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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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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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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.

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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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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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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...