Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth but knew; if age but could.

- Estienne, Henri

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Brookner, Anita

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.

Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

18.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

28.

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

Little, Mary

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Coco Chanel

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

42.

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

48.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark