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

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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

Williams, Carey

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

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

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

George Bernard Shaw

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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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We cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded.

W. Somerset Maugham

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Dave Barry

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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.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

30.

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Bumper Sticker

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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.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

Coco Chanel

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

Proverb, French

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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, 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

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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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