Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Euripides

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

Dave Barry

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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

Seneca

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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

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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Jung, Carl

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

Bible

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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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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

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Benchley, Robert

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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 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