Motivational Quotes

Youth

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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Best Quotes about Youth

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

Coco Chanel

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hill, Aaron

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

W. H. Thompson

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

10.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

14.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

15.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, French

17.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

18.

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

Bumper Sticker

19.

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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

24.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

25.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

26.

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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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

29.

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

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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

32.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

33.

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

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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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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

36.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

37.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...