Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Smith, Logan Pearsall

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Little, Mary

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Hafiz

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

Wade, H. V.

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, Carey

14.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

15.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, French

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

21.

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

22.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Dave Barry

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The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of their blood.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Hill, Aaron

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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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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What is youth except a man or a woman before it is ready or fit to be seen.

Waugh, Evelyn