Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Proverb, French

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Hill, Aaron

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Coco Chanel

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, Carey

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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.