Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has no age.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

10.

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

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

12.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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

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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Dave Barry

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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

26.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

27.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Little, Mary

30.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

35.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Coco Chanel

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

Seneca