Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Youth

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

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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.

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

Jung, Carl

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Pritchett, V. S.

10.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

11.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

12.

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

Dave Barry

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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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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 people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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

Bible

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

20.

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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brookner, Anita

23.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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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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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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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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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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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

Miller, Henry

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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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

42.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Seneca

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark