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

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

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Chesterfield, Lord

If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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

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

W. H. Thompson

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. 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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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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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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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Bumper Sticker

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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

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

Seneca

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bible

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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