Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has become a class.

- Vadim, Roger

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lindsey, Ben

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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.

Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Coco Chanel

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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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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 trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Benchley, Robert

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hill, Aaron

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

Wade, H. V.

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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.