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, 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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

10.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

12.

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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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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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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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]

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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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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 ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bumper Sticker

24.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

25.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Coco Chanel

27.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

28.

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

Proverb, French

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

Eliot, T. S.

31.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Little, Mary

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Seneca

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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