Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Seneca

Best Quotes about Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

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

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.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

10.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

11.

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

14.

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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Willa Cather

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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Jung, Carl

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

31.

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

32.

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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hafiz

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Seneca