Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

W. H. Thompson

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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, 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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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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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

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Euripides

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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 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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Hafiz

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

Miller, Henry

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Kafka, Franz

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Dave Barry