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, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Miller, Henry

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

Livingston, Richard W.

28.

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

Willa Cather

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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

34.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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 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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Benchley, Robert

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

45.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.