Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Dave Barry

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Williams, Carey

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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, 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

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

Willa Cather

18.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hafiz

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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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 need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Brookner, Anita

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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.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Euripides

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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