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

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

10.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

11.

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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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

16.

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.

17.

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

Jung, Carl

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

20.

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

21.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Bible

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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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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 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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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So different are the colors of life, as we look forward to the future, or backward to the past; and so different the opinions and sentiments which this contrariety of appearance naturally produces, that the conversation of the old and young ends generally with contempt or pity on either side.

Johnson, Samuel

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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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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

49.

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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard