Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

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

Hafiz

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

Hill, Aaron

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

24.

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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Euripides

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

Williams, Carey

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

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

Seneca