Motivational Quotes

Youth

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Brookner, Anita

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Bible

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

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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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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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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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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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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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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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Young people need models, not critics...