Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

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.

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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

Dave Barry

Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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 the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Euripides

15.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

17.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

18.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

19.

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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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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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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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 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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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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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

28.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

29.

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

30.

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

Picabia, Francis

31.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

32.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

33.

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

34.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Proverb, French

38.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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

44.

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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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

46.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.