Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Dickens, Charles

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Little, Mary

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

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.

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

Jung, Carl

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.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

18.

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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

29.

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

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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

31.

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

Willa Cather

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Euripides

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

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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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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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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