Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

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

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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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Lowell, James Russell

29.

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Euripides

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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

33.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Willa Cather

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herbert Henry Asquith