Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Coco Chanel

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hafiz

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

10.

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

11.

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

Dave Barry

12.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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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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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Geraldy, Paul

18.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

19.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

20.

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

21.

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 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

23.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Euripides

25.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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

28.

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

Coco Chanel

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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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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

31.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

32.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Willa Cather

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

36.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

38.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

39.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

40.

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

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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 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

43.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

44.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Kafka, Franz

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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

47.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

49.

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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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