Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Waugh, Evelyn

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

The good thing about being young is that you are not experienced enough to know you cannot possibly do the things you are doing.

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

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

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Williams, Carey

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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

Coco Chanel

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Geraldy, Paul

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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

28.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Little, Mary

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

W. H. Thompson

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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Youth should be a savings bank.