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

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Geraldy, Paul

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bumper Sticker

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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 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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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hafiz

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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.

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

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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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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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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.