Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Brookner, Anita

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Dave Barry

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

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

Hill, Aaron

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Miller, Henry

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Willa Cather

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Little, Mary

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Proverb, French

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Dickens, Charles

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar