Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dave Barry

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Willa Cather

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Brookner, Anita

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Bible

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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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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 no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Coco Chanel

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

Seneca

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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 is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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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

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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 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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Williams, Carey

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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