Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Coco Chanel

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dave Barry

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Johnson, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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

29.

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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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.

32.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

42.

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Dickens, Charles

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth has become a class.