Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has no age.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Youth

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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.

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

Lowell, James Russell

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Euripides

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

W. H. Thompson

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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

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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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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dave Barry

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Seneca

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

Little, Mary

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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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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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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Idle youth, enslaved to everything; by being too sensitive I have wasted my life.

Rimbaud, Arthur

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No man knows he is young while he is young.