Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Willa Cather

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

Seneca

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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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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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Euripides

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

Benchley, Robert

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Miller, Henry

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

Williams, Carey