Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

W. H. Thompson

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.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Kafka, Franz

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, 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.

11.

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

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

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

Lindsey, Ben

14.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

15.

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

Geraldy, Paul

16.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

17.

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

Benchley, Robert

18.

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

Dave Barry

19.

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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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

21.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

22.

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

24.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

25.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

26.

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

27.

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

Hill, Aaron

28.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

29.

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

30.

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

31.

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

Williams, Carey

32.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

33.

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

34.

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

35.

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

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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

37.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

38.

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

James M. Barrie

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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

40.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

41.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.