Motivational Quotes

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

10.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Hafiz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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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

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Euripides

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

Benchley, Robert

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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.