Motivational Quotes

Youth

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

- Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Benchley, Robert

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Seneca

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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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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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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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Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

23.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Miller, Henry

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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

34.

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hafiz

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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