Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

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Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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.

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

10.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

11.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Bumper Sticker

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

George Bernard Shaw

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Waugh, Evelyn

37.

The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

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