Motivational Quotes

Youth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jung, Carl

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Kafka, Franz

11.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wade, H. V.

16.

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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

18.

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

Proverb, French

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

20.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Hafiz

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

42.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Euripides

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert