Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

- Ullman, Samuel

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Euripides

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

Willa Cather

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Lowell, James Russell

19.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Lewis, Joe E.

21.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Coco Chanel

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hill, Aaron

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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.

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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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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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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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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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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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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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

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

40.

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

Benchley, Robert

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bible

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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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