Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

James M. Barrie

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

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

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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

11.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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

15.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

16.

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

Proverb, French

17.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

18.

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

Euripides

20.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Williams, Carey

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

25.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

26.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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

Seneca

28.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

33.

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

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

38.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

40.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

41.

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

Hafiz

42.

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

Willa Cather

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.