Motivational Quotes

Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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.

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

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

Hafiz

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Seneca

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

Willa Cather

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Coco Chanel

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric