Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

- Proverb, French

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Euripides

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Hill, Aaron

15.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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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, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

Dave Barry

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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

29.

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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Little, Mary

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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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.