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

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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

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

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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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

11.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

12.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

13.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

14.

What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Brookner, Anita

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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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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

20.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Proverb, French

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

Miller, Henry

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.