Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lowell, James Russell

Best Quotes about Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

10.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Lowell, James Russell

23.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Brookner, Anita