Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Willa Cather

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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

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

Bible

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Euripides

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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

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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

27.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

28.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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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

42.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Dave Barry

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

Brookner, Anita