Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Jung, Carl

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

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

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

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

11.

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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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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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

14.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

15.

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

Coco Chanel

16.

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

17.

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

18.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

19.

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

Euripides

20.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

21.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

24.

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

Kafka, Franz

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

30.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

31.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

34.

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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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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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

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

W. H. Thompson

42.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

43.

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

45.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Little, Mary