Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

- Aristotle

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Jung, Carl

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

Buck, Pearl S.

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Pritchett, V. S.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Miller, Henry

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hill, Aaron

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Seneca

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

Willa Cather

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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

24.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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

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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

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Geraldy, Paul

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Benchley, Robert

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.