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

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Little, Mary

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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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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

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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

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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

17.

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

18.

So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

20.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

21.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Coco Chanel

23.

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

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

27.

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

28.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

29.

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

30.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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

34.

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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

38.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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

40.

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

Willa Cather

41.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

43.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Geraldy, Paul

47.

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

Hafiz

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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