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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

14.

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

Dickens, Charles

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Little, Mary

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Proverb, French

22.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

24.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Hafiz

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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