Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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

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

Hafiz

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Coco Chanel

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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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

Euripides

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, French

22.

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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Seneca

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

Jung, Carl

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

Lowell, James Russell

38.

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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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