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

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

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

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

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Euripides

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Dave Barry

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

Proverb, French

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

Eliot, T. S.

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We are none of us infallible--not even the youngest of us.

W. H. Thompson

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz