Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.

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

Williams, Carey

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hafiz

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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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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