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

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

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.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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.

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

Waugh, Evelyn

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

10.

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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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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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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Chesterfield, Lord

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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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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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Maugham, W. Somerset

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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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The American ideal is youth --handsome, empty youth.

Miller, Henry

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

Proverb, French

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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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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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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Seneca

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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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

46.

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

Benchley, Robert

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd