Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

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

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

10.

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

Picabia, Francis

11.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

12.

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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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

15.

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

Proverb, French

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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

17.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

19.

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

Wade, H. V.

20.

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

Seneca

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

Hafiz

22.

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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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Euripides

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

31.

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

Coco Chanel

32.

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

Lowell, James Russell

33.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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

37.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

44.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Willa Cather

48.

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

George Bernard Shaw

49.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks