Motivational Quotes

Youth

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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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

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

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Little, Mary

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Seneca

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Jung, Carl

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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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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

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

19.

I've never understood why people consider youth a time of freedom and joy. It's probably because they have forgotten their own.

Atwood, Margaret

20.

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

Coco Chanel

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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 period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

25.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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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

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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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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

30.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

31.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

32.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Hafiz

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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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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth is the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Don't let young people tell you their aspirations; when they drop them they will drop you.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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.