Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hill, Aaron

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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

Livingston, Richard W.

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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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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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Kafka, Franz

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

W. H. Thompson

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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

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

Jung, Carl

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Dave Barry

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Bumper Sticker

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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