Motivational Quotes

Youth

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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.

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Bumper Sticker

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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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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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hafiz

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Proverb, French

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

Bible

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

Miller, Henry

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Dickens, Charles

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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 is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.