Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dave Barry

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Little, Mary

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

11.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

12.

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

13.

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

14.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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

16.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

18.

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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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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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 is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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

Hill, Aaron

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

30.

There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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

37.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Euripides

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 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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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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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

50.

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

Benchley, Robert