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

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 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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

J. K. Rowling

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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 feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Proverb, French

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Hafiz

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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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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 pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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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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Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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