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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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 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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

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

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

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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

11.

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

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

15.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

18.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

21.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

25.

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

Euripides

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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

27.

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

Jung, Carl

28.

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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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

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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 cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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

34.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

36.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

38.

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

Brookner, Anita

39.

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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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

41.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

42.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

44.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

45.

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