Motivational Quotes

Youth

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

- Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

Bible

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

Little, Mary

21.

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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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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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

24.

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

Dave Barry

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

28.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Seneca

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

Miller, Henry

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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 is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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 but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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.