Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Miller, Henry

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dave Barry

Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Brookner, Anita

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

25.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Seneca

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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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Youth has no age.