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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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

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

James M. Barrie

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Jung, Carl

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

10.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Euripides

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Coco Chanel

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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 an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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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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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Brookner, Anita

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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