Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

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

Willa Cather

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

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

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Jung, Carl

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

Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Dave Barry

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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, 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