Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem those who think alike than those who think differently.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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

Chesterfield, Lord

There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age I missed it coming and going.

Priestley, J. B.

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

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

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Bumper Sticker

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Jung, Carl

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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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 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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

18.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

20.

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

Benchley, Robert

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Little, Mary

25.

Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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

Seneca

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

Lindsey, Ben

33.

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

Hafiz

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

Euripides

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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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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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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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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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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