Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Hafiz

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

W. H. Thompson

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Lowell, James Russell

12.

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

Coco Chanel

13.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

14.

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

15.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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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

18.

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

19.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

20.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

21.

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

22.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

24.

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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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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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

28.

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.

29.

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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

31.

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

32.

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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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

34.

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

35.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

36.

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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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

Geraldy, Paul

43.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

44.

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

45.

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

46.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

47.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

48.

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

Benchley, Robert

49.

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

Brookner, Anita

50.

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