Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

10.

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

Euripides

11.

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

Little, Mary

12.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

13.

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

Jung, Carl

14.

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

Miller, Henry

15.

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

16.

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

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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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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Eliot, T. S.

22.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

25.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

29.

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

Seneca

30.

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

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

Coco Chanel

32.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

George Bernard Shaw

35.

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.

36.

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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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

38.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

39.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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.

41.

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

43.

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

44.

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

Lowell, James Russell

45.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

46.

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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

Willa Cather

50.

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