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

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

Coco Chanel

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.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Euripides

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

Dave Barry

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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 quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

W. H. Thompson

21.

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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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 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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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

Little, Mary

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry