Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

11.

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

12.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

13.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

14.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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

20.

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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

25.

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

26.

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

Coco Chanel

27.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

28.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

29.

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

Hafiz

31.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

37.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

38.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger