Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Little, Mary

Best Quotes about Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Bumper Sticker

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Coco Chanel

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

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

Seneca

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

Dave Barry

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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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

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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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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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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]

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