Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

11.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

12.

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

13.

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

Coco Chanel

14.

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

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

18.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

19.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

20.

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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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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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.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

24.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

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

Little, Mary

26.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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

35.

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

Bumper Sticker

36.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

37.

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

Benchley, Robert

38.

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

Euripides

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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

44.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

45.

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

Dickens, Charles

46.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

48.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

49.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

50.

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