Motivational Quotes

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Brookner, Anita

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

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

Proverb, French

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Waugh, Evelyn

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Bible

28.

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dave Barry

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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

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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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Johnson, Samuel