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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Euripides

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Hafiz

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

12.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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

Bible

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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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