Motivational Quotes

Youth

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Youth

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

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Bible

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Coco Chanel

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Geraldy, Paul

11.

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

Wade, H. V.

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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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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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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd