Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Youth

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Williams, Carey

10.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

13.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

14.

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

Willa Cather

15.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

16.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

17.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

18.

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

19.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

20.

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

21.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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

23.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

24.

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

25.

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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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

27.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

28.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

29.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

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

George Bernard Shaw

32.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

33.

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

34.

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

Picabia, Francis

35.

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

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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

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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 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

39.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

41.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

42.

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

43.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

44.

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

45.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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.