Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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

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

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

Bumper Sticker

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

10.

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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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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Seneca

18.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

20.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dave Barry

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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.

24.

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

Brookner, Anita

25.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

26.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

27.

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.

28.

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

Proverb, French

29.

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

Little, Mary

30.

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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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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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

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

35.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

42.

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

Bible

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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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

45.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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