Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Euripides

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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 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