Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Seneca

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

10.

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

Willa Cather

11.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Dickens, Charles

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hafiz

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Hill, Aaron

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

29.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

31.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

40.

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.

41.

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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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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.