Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Barney, Natalie Clifford

Best Quotes about Youth

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

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 youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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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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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Hill, Aaron

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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]

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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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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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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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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

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Lindsey, Ben

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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 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

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

Williams, Carey

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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