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

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

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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.

What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

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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

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

Coco Chanel

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Proverb, French

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

Euripides

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Bible

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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 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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dave Barry

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

Wade, H. V.

43.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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