Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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.

Coco Chanel

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

43.

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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

47.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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