Motivational Quotes

Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Jung, Carl

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.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

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

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

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

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

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression I'm really glad that your young people missed the Depression and missed the big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.

Richards, Ann

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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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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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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Euripides

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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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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

30.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Coco Chanel

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

James M. Barrie

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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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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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