Motivational Quotes

Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Seneca

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

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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

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

Willa Cather

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Coco Chanel

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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

Jung, Carl

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Little, Mary

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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