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

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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

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

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

11.

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

Williams, Carey

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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Youth, abundant wealth, high birth, and inexperience, are, each of them a source of ruin. What then must be the fate of those in whom all four are combined.

Hitopadesa

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Willa Cather

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Benchley, Robert

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Brookner, Anita

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

31.

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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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.