Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

Dave Barry

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Euripides

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

Jung, Carl

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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 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

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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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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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