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

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

Hill, Aaron

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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.

10.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

12.

Don't laugh at youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Smith, Logan Pearsall

13.

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

Seneca

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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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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 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 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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Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Euripides

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

21.

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

22.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Wade, H. V.

25.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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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 to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

30.

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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

32.

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

Lowell, James Russell

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

47.

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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

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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 cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

J. K. Rowling