Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Jung, Carl

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Bumper Sticker

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

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

George Bernard Shaw

11.

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

Little, Mary

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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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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

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Miller, Henry

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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 such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Proverb, French

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

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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 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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Eliot, T. S.

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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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

Wade, H. V.

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

W. H. Thompson

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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Seneca

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert