Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Euripides

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Dickens, Charles

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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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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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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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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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Jung, Carl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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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

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Bumper Sticker

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