Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

10.

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

Seneca

11.

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

George Bernard Shaw

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

14.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

16.

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

17.

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

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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.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

20.

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

21.

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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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

23.

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

24.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

25.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

27.

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

28.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

29.

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

30.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

31.

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.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

35.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

37.

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

38.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

39.

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

40.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

41.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

42.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

44.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

Dave Barry

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