Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

10.

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

12.

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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Phean, Luella F.

14.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

16.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

18.

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

Proverb, French

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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

20.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

21.

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

28.

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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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Seneca

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

33.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

35.

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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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, 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

41.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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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 surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

45.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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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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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