Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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.

11.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

13.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

14.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

15.

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

16.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

17.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

18.

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

19.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

20.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

21.

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

22.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Lowell, James Russell

25.

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

Picabia, Francis

26.

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

27.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

28.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

29.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

30.

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

31.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

33.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

34.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

35.

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

37.

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

Bumper Sticker

38.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Euripides

40.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

42.

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

Williams, Carey

45.

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

46.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Chesterfield, Lord

49.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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