Motivational Quotes

Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dickens, Charles

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

10.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

11.

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

12.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

14.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

15.

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

Willa Cather

16.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

17.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Eliot, T. S.

19.

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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

22.

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

Williams, Carey

23.

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

Bible

25.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

26.

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

Wade, H. V.

27.

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

Euripides

28.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

29.

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

30.

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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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

32.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

33.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

34.

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

Little, Mary

35.

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

James M. Barrie

36.

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

Dave Barry

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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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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

39.

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

40.

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

41.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

45.

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

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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

47.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

48.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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