Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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

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

Bible

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

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

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

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

Hafiz

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

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

10.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

11.

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

Geraldy, Paul

12.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

14.

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

Williams, Carey

15.

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

Jung, Carl

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

Seneca

18.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

19.

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

20.

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

Miller, Henry

21.

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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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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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

24.

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.

25.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

27.

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

Willa Cather

29.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

30.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

31.

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

32.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

33.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

35.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

36.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

37.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

38.

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

James M. Barrie

39.

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

Dickens, Charles

40.

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

Chesterfield, Lord

41.

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

42.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

43.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger