Motivational Quotes

Youth

No man knows he is young while he is young.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Shaw, George Bernard

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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.

12.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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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

20.

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

Wade, H. V.

21.

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

Proverb, French

22.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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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.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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

39.

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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

42.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

44.

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 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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

47.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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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

49.

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

Geraldy, Paul