Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Takuboku, Ishikawa

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

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

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Dickens, Charles

10.

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

11.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

13.

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.

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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

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

16.

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

17.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

18.

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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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

20.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

21.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

23.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

25.

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

Proverb, French

26.

The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

27.

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

28.

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.

29.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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.

31.

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

Bumper Sticker

32.

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

Seneca

33.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

34.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

35.

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 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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

38.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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

Brookner, Anita

42.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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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

49.

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, 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.

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