Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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

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

Seneca

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

Proverb, French

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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 period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Coco Chanel

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

Hafiz

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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, 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

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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George