Motivational Quotes

Youth

If youth only knew: if age only could.

- Henri Estienne

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Lowell, James Russell

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

Coco Chanel

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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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 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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Brookner, Anita

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

Miller, Henry

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

33.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Dave Barry

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Lewis, Joe E.

43.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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