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

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.

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

Bible

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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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

11.

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

Seneca

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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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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

14.

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

W. H. Thompson

15.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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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

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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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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

21.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

22.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Young people are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and more fit for new projects than for settled business.

Bacon, Francis

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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.

28.

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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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.

31.

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

Jung, Carl

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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

33.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Willa Cather

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

37.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Euripides

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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

40.

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

Hafiz

41.

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.