Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Livingston, Richard W.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Dave Barry

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

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

Seneca

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hafiz

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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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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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

Bumper Sticker

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

W. H. Thompson

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bible

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

Benchley, Robert

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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

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

Lindsey, Ben

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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

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Shaw, George Bernard