Motivational Quotes

Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dave Barry

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Bible

10.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

14.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Williams, Carey

21.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Benchley, Robert

23.

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

Hafiz

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

Willa Cather

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

Euripides

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.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

38.

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

Coco Chanel

40.

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

41.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

42.

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

43.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

44.

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

W. H. Thompson

45.

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

46.

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

Brookner, Anita

47.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

48.

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

49.

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

Dickens, Charles