Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Brookner, Anita

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.

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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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

15.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

29.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Hafiz

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

Bible

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

41.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Coco Chanel

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Miller, Henry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Seneca