Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has no age.

- Picasso, Pablo

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Euripides

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

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

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

Shaw, George Bernard

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Coco Chanel

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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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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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

W. H. Thompson

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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

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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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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne