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

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

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.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Proverb, French

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

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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 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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

14.

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

Bible

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

Euripides

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

20.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

22.

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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

27.

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

Williams, Carey

28.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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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

33.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

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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

39.

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

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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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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

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

Dave Barry

43.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Coco Chanel

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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

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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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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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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