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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

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

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Jung, Carl

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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

Euripides

12.

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

Dave Barry

13.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

14.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

15.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

19.

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

20.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

21.

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

22.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

25.

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

Lindsey, Ben

26.

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

Hill, Aaron

28.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

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

33.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hafiz

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

37.

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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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

40.

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

41.

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

Bible

42.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

43.

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

Dickens, Charles

44.

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

Proverb, French

45.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

48.

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

49.

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

Coco Chanel

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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