Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Willa Cather

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

10.

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

11.

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

Bumper Sticker

12.

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

Bible

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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

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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

15.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

20.

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

Benchley, Robert

21.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

22.

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

Lindsey, Ben

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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 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

25.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

26.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

27.

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

28.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

29.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

30.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

31.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

32.

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

Coco Chanel

33.

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

Wade, H. V.

34.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

35.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Dave Barry

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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

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

41.

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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

45.

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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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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.