Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Seneca

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

James M. Barrie

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

Miller, Henry

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

Little, Mary

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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

Dave Barry

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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.

38.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Willa Cather

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

Proverb, French

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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