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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Hill, Aaron

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

10.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

11.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

12.

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 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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

17.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

18.

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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 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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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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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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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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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

28.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

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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.

31.

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

32.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.