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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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.

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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We live in an age when to be young and to be indifferent can be no longer synonymous. We must prepare for the coming hour. The claims of the Future are represented by suffering millions; and the Youth of a Nation are the trustees of Posterity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Dickens, Charles

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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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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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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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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 unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

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

Pritchett, V. S.

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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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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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 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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.