Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

- Hoffer, Eric

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

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

Jung, Carl

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Barry

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

10.

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

11.

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

12.

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

13.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

19.

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

Bible

20.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Euripides

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

Waugh, Evelyn

24.

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

25.

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

Willa Cather

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

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

28.

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

Hill, Aaron

31.

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

Proverb, French

32.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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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 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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary