Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

Euripides

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

11.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

12.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

13.

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

George Bernard Shaw

14.

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

15.

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 has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

17.

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

Bumper Sticker

18.

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.

19.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

20.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

21.

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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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

24.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

25.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

26.

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

Hafiz

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

30.

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

Little, Mary

31.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

32.

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

Seneca

33.

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

34.

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

Brookner, Anita

35.

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

Willa Cather

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

40.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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.

Lebowitz, Fran

42.

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

Proverb, French

43.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

44.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

45.

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

46.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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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