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

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

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

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

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

Hafiz

12.

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

13.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

15.

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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Aaron

18.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

19.

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

Seneca

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

24.

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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

28.

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

Kafka, Franz

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

31.

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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.

33.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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

36.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Bible

38.

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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Wade, H. V.

44.

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

45.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

Dave Barry

47.

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

Bumper Sticker

48.

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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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.