Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has become a class.

- Vadim, Roger

Best Quotes about Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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.

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

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

Hafiz

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Picabia, Francis

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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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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

31.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Geraldy, Paul

34.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Dave Barry

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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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

45.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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