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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hill, Aaron

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Dave Barry

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Williams, Carey

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

Euripides

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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

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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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 wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Miller, Henry

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hafiz

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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

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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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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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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

32.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

33.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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

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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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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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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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

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

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 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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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.