Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lewis, Joe E.

Best Quotes about Youth

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Picabia, Francis

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

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

11.

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

19.

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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

21.

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

Willa Cather

23.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

25.

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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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

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

Proverb, French

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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

31.

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

Coco Chanel

32.

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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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

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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

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Kafka, Franz

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

42.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Miller, Henry

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

45.

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne