Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- James M. Barrie

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Jung, Carl

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Benchley, Robert

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

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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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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, 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

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

Dave Barry

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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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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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