Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Coco Chanel

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Proverb, French

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Eliot, T. S.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Seneca

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Lindsey, Ben

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

15.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

21.

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

Bible

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

25.

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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Williams, Carey

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

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

Jung, Carl

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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 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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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Hafiz

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

40.

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

Wade, H. V.

44.

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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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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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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.