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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Proverb, French

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

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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

Coco Chanel

12.

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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

14.

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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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

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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

17.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

20.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

21.

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

Dickens, Charles

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

25.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

26.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

28.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

29.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

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

Hafiz

31.

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, 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

33.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

34.

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

Eliot, T. S.

35.

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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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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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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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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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

40.

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

41.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

42.

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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Ullman, Samuel

44.

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.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

46.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

47.

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

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson