Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Brookner, Anita

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

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

13.

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

Williams, Carey

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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.

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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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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.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Little, Mary

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Willa Cather

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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.