Motivational Quotes

Youth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hafiz

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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.

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

10.

Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

13.

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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

24.

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

25.

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

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

28.

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

30.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Euripides

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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

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

44.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

45.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

46.

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

Little, Mary

47.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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