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 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

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

Willa Cather

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

10.

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

Williams, Carey

11.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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

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

Miller, Henry

16.

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

17.

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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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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

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Seneca

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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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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 people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Dave Barry

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