Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

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

Euripides

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

10.

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

11.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

13.

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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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

15.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

16.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

17.

A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

18.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

19.

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

20.

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

21.

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

Lowell, James Russell

22.

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

23.

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

Dickens, Charles

24.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

25.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

26.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

27.

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

Proverb, French

28.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

29.

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

30.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

31.

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

Geraldy, Paul

32.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

33.

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

34.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

35.

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.

36.

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

Willa Cather

38.

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

Eliot, T. S.

39.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

40.

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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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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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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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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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

45.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

46.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

47.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.