Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Benchley, Robert

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Benchley, Robert

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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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 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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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, French

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Little, Mary

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

W. H. Thompson

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