Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Euripides

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Bumper Sticker

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Bible

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Proverb, French

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

Benchley, Robert

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Coco Chanel

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.