Motivational Quotes

Youth

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

- Rexroth, Kenneth

Best Quotes about Youth

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Bible

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

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

10.

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

11.

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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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

13.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

14.

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

15.

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

Benchley, Robert

16.

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

17.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

21.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Livingston, Richard W.

23.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

24.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

25.

When the newspapers have got nothing else to talk about, they cut loose on the young. The young are always news. If they are up to something, that's news. If they aren't, that's news too.

Rexroth, Kenneth

26.

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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

30.

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

Lindsey, Ben

31.

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

33.

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

34.

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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

39.

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

Bumper Sticker

40.

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

41.

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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

43.

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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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