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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

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.

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.

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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Dave Barry

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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

Willa Cather

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.