Motivational Quotes

Youth

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

- Jonathan Swift

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

Picabia, Francis

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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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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, 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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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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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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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

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Proverb, French

25.

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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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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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 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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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

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

Willa Cather

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

Hafiz

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

47.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Livingston, Richard W.