Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Jung, Carl

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

W. H. Thompson

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Wade, H. V.

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miller, Henry

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Dave Barry

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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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

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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]

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Seneca

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