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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

Euripides

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

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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

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 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

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Proverb, French

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Seneca

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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

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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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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Benchley, Robert

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Dickens, Charles

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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