Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Gilmore, Dame Mary

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Jung, Carl

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Coco Chanel

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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]

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