Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has no age.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

In the first day of my youth I tried to find it in the creatures, as I saw others do: but the more I sought, the less I found it, and the nearer I went to it, the further off it was. For of every image that appeared to me, before I had fully tested it, or abandoned myself to peace in it, and inner voice said to me: 'This is not what thou seekest.'

Suso, Heinrich

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Coco Chanel

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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.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Euripides

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

41.

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

Bible

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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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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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.

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