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

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

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

Little, Mary

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

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

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

10.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

11.

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

12.

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

13.

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

14.

Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

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

George Bernard Shaw

16.

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

17.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

18.

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

19.

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

20.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

21.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

22.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

23.

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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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

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

26.

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

27.

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

Coco Chanel

28.

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.

29.

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

30.

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

Willa Cather

31.

Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

32.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

33.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

34.

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

35.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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

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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

42.

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

43.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

44.

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

Bumper Sticker

45.

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

Benchley, Robert

46.

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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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

48.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

49.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

50.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.