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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

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

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

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

10.

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

11.

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

Proverb, French

12.

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

Bible

13.

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

14.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

15.

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

Jung, Carl

16.

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

Picabia, Francis

17.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

18.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

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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

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

22.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

23.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

24.

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

Dave Barry

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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.

28.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

29.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

30.

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

31.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

33.

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

Geraldy, Paul

34.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

38.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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

40.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

41.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

42.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

45.

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

46.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

47.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

48.

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

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