Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Rimbaud, Arthur

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Jung, Carl

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Lewis, Joe E.

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

14.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

15.

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

16.

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

17.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

18.

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

19.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

20.

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

W. H. Thompson

21.

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

Lindsey, Ben

22.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

23.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

24.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

25.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

26.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

28.

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

29.

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

Dave Barry

30.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

32.

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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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.

34.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

36.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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

39.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

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

Miller, Henry

41.

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

Lowell, James Russell

43.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Euripides

45.

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

Seneca

46.

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.

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Bible

50.

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