Motivational Quotes

Youth

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

- Shaw, George Bernard

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Williams, Carey

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Brookner, Anita

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

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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]

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

18.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

19.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

20.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

21.

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

Dave Barry

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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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

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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

26.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

27.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

28.

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

Benchley, Robert

29.

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

30.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

32.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

33.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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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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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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

Dickens, Charles

42.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.