Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hill, Aaron

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

11.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

12.

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

13.

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

14.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Coco Chanel

16.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

17.

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 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 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 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

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

22.

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

Jung, Carl

23.

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

24.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

25.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

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

Proverb, French

27.

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

28.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

29.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

30.

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

Wade, H. V.

31.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

32.

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

Little, Mary

33.

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

James M. Barrie

34.

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

Willa Cather

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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

36.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

38.

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

39.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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

42.

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

Hafiz

43.

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

W. H. Thompson

44.

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

45.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

46.

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

Miller, Henry

48.

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

49.

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

Brookner, Anita

50.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph