Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

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

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

Little, Mary

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

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

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

Proverb, French

10.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Coco Chanel

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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 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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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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Willa Cather

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Jung, Carl

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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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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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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.