Motivational Quotes

Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Youth

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

11.

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

James M. Barrie

12.

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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Seneca

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

28.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miller, Henry

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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, 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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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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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