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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Seneca

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

10.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

13.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Williams, Carey

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Euripides

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

Hafiz

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dave Barry

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Little, Mary

33.

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.

34.

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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

39.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

48.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.