Motivational Quotes

Youth

It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Benchley, Robert

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

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

Dickens, Charles

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Dave Barry

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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

Hafiz

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Williams, Carey

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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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 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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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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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

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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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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