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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Brookner, Anita

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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 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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dave Barry

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

Jung, Carl

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

Bumper Sticker

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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

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

Seneca

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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, 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

33.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Euripides

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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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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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

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

Herbert Henry Asquith