Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lowell, James Russell

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Livingston, Richard W.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

10.

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

Seneca

12.

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

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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

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

20.

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

Coco Chanel

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Jung, Carl

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

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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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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

40.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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 has become a class.