Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Takuboku, Ishikawa

Best Quotes about Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Bible

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

Lowell, James Russell

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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.

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

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.

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

Kafka, Franz

11.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

12.

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

Hill, Aaron

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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

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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

15.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dickens, Charles

20.

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

Euripides

21.

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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

26.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

27.

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

Seneca

28.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Hafiz

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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

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

35.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

36.

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

W. H. Thompson

37.

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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

40.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

41.

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 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.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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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

49.

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

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

Jung, Carl