Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Wade, H. V.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Little, Mary

10.

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

11.

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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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

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

15.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

18.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Eliot, T. S.

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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

25.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

35.

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

36.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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 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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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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