Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Hill, Aaron

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

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.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Bumper Sticker

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Bible

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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.

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

Seneca

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hafiz

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Euripides

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

Wade, H. V.

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When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Dickens, Charles

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri