Motivational Quotes

Youth

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Willa Cather

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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

Hafiz

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

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

Williams, Carey

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

10.

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

11.

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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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

14.

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

15.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

16.

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

17.

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

18.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

19.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

20.

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.

21.

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

22.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Bumper Sticker

24.

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.

25.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

Coco Chanel

29.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

35.

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

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Livingston, Richard W.

47.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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