Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Picabia, Francis

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

17.

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

Proverb, French

18.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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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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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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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

31.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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