Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Proverb, French

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

Brookner, Anita

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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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.

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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

14.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Benchley, Robert

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

22.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Wade, H. V.

29.

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

30.

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

Seneca

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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

32.

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

Bible

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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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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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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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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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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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 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 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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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