Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

Best Quotes about Youth

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Jung, Carl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hill, Aaron

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Wade, H. V.

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In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dave Barry

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Williams, Carey

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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Little, Mary

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

Lewis, Joe E.