Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

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

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

Williams, Carey

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

14.

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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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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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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, 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

22.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

25.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

28.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

31.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Phean, Luella F.

33.

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

34.

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

Proverb, French

35.

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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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

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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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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

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

Wade, H. V.

41.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

42.

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

W. H. Thompson

43.

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

Hafiz

44.

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

Jung, Carl

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

46.

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

Bible

49.

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

50.

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

Lewis, Joe E.