Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

Willa Cather

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

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

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

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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

12.

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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Little, Mary

27.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

35.

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

Bible

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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 a period of missed opportunities.