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

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Dave Barry

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

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.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

12.

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

Miller, Henry

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Hill, Aaron

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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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Willa Cather

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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 lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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 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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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

48.

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

Benchley, Robert

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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