Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Kafka, Franz

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Little, Mary

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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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 is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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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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 American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

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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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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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 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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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

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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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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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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