Motivational Quotes

Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Little, Mary

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

W. H. Thompson

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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 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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Hill, Aaron

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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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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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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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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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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 cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Euripides

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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