Motivational Quotes

Youth

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

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

Proverb, French

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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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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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Euripides

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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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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

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

28.

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

Williams, Carey

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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

32.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Bible

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

47.

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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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

49.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd