Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Euripides

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

Hafiz

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bible

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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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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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Wade, H. V.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

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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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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd