Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Euripides

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

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

Brookner, Anita

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

W. H. Thompson

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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

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

Little, Mary

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lowell, James Russell

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Coco Chanel

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

Williams, Carey

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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...