Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

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.

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

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Jung, Carl

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dickens, Charles

12.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Williams, Carey

16.

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

17.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

19.

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

20.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

21.

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

Willa Cather

22.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

23.

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

24.

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

25.

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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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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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

28.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

29.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

31.

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

Hafiz

32.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

33.

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

Hill, Aaron

36.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

38.

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

Coco Chanel

39.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

40.

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

41.

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

Picabia, Francis

42.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

43.

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

Dave Barry

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