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

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Seneca

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

Dave Barry

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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Little, Mary

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

30.

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

Euripides

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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 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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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 young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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 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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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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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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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.

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