Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Famous Inspirational Daily Quotes

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Williams, Carey

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

Waugh, Evelyn

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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.

10.

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

Dave Barry

11.

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

12.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

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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

19.

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

Seneca

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

Bible

22.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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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

28.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

29.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

30.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

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

Proverb, French

33.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

34.

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

35.

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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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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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

39.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

40.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

41.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Coco Chanel