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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Hafiz

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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The young know how truly difficult and dreadful youth can be. Their youth is wasted on everyone else, that's the horror. The young have no authority, no respect.

Anne Rice

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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 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 ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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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

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks