Motivational Quotes

Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Lowell, James Russell

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

33.

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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Coco Chanel

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace