Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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.

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

Euripides

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

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

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

Proverb, French

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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 ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Hafiz

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

Williams, Carey

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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 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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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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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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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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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