Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

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

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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

Jung, Carl

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Bumper Sticker

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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

Bible

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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 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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle