Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dave Barry

Best Quotes about Youth

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Benchley, Robert

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

10.

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

11.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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 feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

18.

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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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

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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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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 doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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 passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

31.

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

32.

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

Euripides

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Dave Barry

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Willa Cather

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