Motivational Quotes

Youth

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Proverb, French

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

10.

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.

11.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

12.

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

Hafiz

13.

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

14.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

15.

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

16.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

17.

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

18.

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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

20.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

21.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

22.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

24.

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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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

28.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

33.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

34.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

35.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

36.

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

Willa Cather

38.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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

41.

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

Seneca

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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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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

45.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

46.

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

Euripides

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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

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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