Motivational Quotes

Youth

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Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Kafka, Franz

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Proverb, French

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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 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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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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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Marden, Orison Swett

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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