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 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

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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.

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

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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

10.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Proverb, French

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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

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Brookner, Anita

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

24.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

28.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 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 trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Jung, Carl

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hafiz

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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

Willa Cather

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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