Motivational Quotes

Youth

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

- Hartog, Jan De

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

11.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

12.

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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

18.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Bible

25.

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

Dave Barry

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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 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

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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