Motivational Quotes

Youth

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

- Maugham, W. Somerset

Best Quotes about Youth

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

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brookner, Anita

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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.

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

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Proverb, French

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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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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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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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