Motivational Quotes

Youth

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

- Lindsey, Ben

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Jung, Carl

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Pritchett, V. S.

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

W. H. Thompson

20.

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Geraldy, Paul

25.

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

Dickens, Charles

26.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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

33.

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

Miller, Henry

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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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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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

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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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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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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Dave Barry

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Coco Chanel

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann