Motivational Quotes

Youth

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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Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Willa Cather

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

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

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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Jung, Carl

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

Shaw, George Bernard

15.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

23.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Hafiz

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

Lowell, James Russell

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living.

Williams, Carey

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Seneca

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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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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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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

45.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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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 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

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

Little, Mary