Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Coco Chanel

Best Quotes about Youth

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Geraldy, Paul

The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

W. H. Thompson

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

10.

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

Little, Mary

11.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

12.

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

Picabia, Francis

13.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

14.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

16.

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

17.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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.

22.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

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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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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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.

28.

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

31.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

32.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

38.

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

39.

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

Bible

40.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

41.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

44.

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

Hafiz

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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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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

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

Willa Cather

49.

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

Miller, Henry

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri