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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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

Youth enters the world with very happy prejudices in her own favor. She imagines herself not only certain of accomplishing every adventure, but of obtaining those rewards which the accomplishment may deserve. She is not easily persuaded to believe that the force of merit can be resisted by obstinacy and avarice, or its luster darkened by envy and malignity.

Johnson, Samuel

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Brookner, Anita

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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.

Hitopadesa

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

Lowell, James Russell

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Hafiz

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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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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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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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

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

Willa Cather

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Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Dave Barry

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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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Youth is something very new: twenty years ago no one mentioned it.

Coco Chanel

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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, large, lusty, loving -- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination?

Whitman, Walt

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

W. H. Thompson

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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