Motivational Quotes

Youth

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Youth

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dave Barry

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Coco Chanel

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

Euripides

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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

Proverb, French

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Wade, H. V.

35.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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

39.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Hill, Aaron

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham