Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

- Connolly, Cyril

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hafiz

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

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

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

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

James M. Barrie

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Brookner, Anita

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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

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

Seneca

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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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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

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Benchley, 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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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