Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Livingston, Richard W.

Best Quotes about Youth

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Seneca

10.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

Picabia, Francis

12.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Eliot, T. S.

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

21.

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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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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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hafiz

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Wade, H. V.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle