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

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

Brookner, Anita

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Coco Chanel

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

Proverb, French

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Jung, Carl

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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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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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

Pritchett, V. S.

28.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Dave Barry

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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

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

Euripides

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

Bumper Sticker

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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.

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

Miller, Henry

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.