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

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

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.

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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Livingston, Richard W.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

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

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

10.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Seneca

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Wade, H. V.

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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

23.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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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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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

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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 secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, French

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

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

45.

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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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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There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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.