Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Pritchett, V. S.

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Brookner, Anita

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

21.

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

Coco Chanel

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Euripides

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Hafiz

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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 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