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

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

It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

James M. Barrie

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

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

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

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

14.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

18.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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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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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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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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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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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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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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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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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There's nothing wrong with teenagers that reasoning with them won't aggravate.

Bumper Sticker

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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

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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Euripides

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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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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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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.

Benchley, Robert

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

Dave Barry

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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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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As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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.