Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

12.

Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

13.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Proverb, French

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

Coco Chanel

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

W. H. Thompson

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

38.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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.