Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Lindsey, Ben

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Bumper Sticker

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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.

In grade school, I was a complete geek. You know, there's always the kid who's too short, the kid who wears glasses, the kid who's not athletic. Well, I was all three.

Moore, Julianne

10.

Youth, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Logan Pearsall Smith

15.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

16.

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

17.

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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Willa Cather

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

Picabia, Francis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

29.

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Hafiz

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

Bible

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

42.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa