Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Pritchett, V. S.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Willa Cather

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

10.

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

11.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

12.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

13.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

16.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

17.

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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

19.

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

Benchley, Robert

20.

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

21.

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

22.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

24.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

25.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

26.

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

27.

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

Coco Chanel

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

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

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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.

Carlyle, Thomas

31.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

32.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

33.

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

34.

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

35.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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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

38.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

39.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Miller, Henry

47.

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

Proverb, French

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