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

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

Picabia, Francis

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Kafka, Franz

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

11.

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

12.

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

Willa Cather

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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]

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

18.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

20.

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.

21.

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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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.

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

31.

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

33.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Seneca

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

Dave Barry

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Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

43.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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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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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift