Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Euripides

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

W. H. Thompson

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

30.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Brookner, Anita

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Coco Chanel

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.