Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

James M. Barrie

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

Lowell, James Russell

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

W. H. Thompson

11.

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

12.

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

Dave Barry

13.

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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

21.

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.

22.

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

Seneca

23.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

24.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

25.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

26.

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

27.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

28.

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

Euripides

29.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

30.

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

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

33.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

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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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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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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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

39.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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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

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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

47.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

48.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron