Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has become a class.

- Vadim, Roger

Best Quotes about Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Little, Mary

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

George Bernard Shaw

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

Dickens, Charles

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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

Wade, H. V.

15.

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

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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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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

18.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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 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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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

26.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

27.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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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 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.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

32.

The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, Carey

36.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

39.

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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.

43.

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Dave Barry