Motivational Quotes

Youth

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

- Livingston, Richard W.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Coco Chanel

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

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

Bible

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

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.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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

11.

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

Miller, Henry

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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]

Bible

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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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

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

Seneca

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

24.

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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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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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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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

30.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Little, Mary

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Benchley, Robert