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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Dave Barry

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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

13.

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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Dickens, Charles

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Proverb, French

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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, 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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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Miller, Henry

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hafiz

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.