Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Jung, Carl

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

10.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

11.

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

15.

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

Dave Barry

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Little, Mary

19.

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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Coco Chanel

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Willa Cather

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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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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 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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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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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 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 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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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