Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

- Horace

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Williams, Carey

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

10.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

11.

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

12.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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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

15.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

21.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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

25.

The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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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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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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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 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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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

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

Euripides

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Hafiz

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

49.

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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.