Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

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

Williams, Carey

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

Coco Chanel

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

12.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Brookner, Anita

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Bible

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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Hafiz

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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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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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

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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