Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Coco Chanel

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

James M. Barrie

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

White, Elwyn Brooks

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

Dickens, Charles

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.

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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

Williams, Carey

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

19.

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

Willa Cather

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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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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Livingston, Richard W.

24.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

25.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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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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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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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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

33.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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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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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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What a mistake to suppose that the passions are strongest in youth! The passions are not stronger, but the control over them is weaker! They are more easily excited, they are more violent and apparent; but they have less energy, less durability, less intense and concentrated power than in the maturer life.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Brookner, Anita

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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

43.

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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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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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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If youth but had the knowledge and old age the strength.

Proverb, French

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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