Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Coco Chanel

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Proverb, French

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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

27.

Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hafiz

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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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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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