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

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

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

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Youth troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

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

Willa Cather

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sidney J. Harris

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

Buck, Pearl S.

10.

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

11.

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

Takuboku, Ishikawa

12.

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Brookner, Anita

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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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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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.

21.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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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

25.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

26.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

27.

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

Benchley, Robert

28.

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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A hundred things are done today in the divine name of Youth, that if they showed their true colors would be seen by rights to belong rather to old age.

Lewis, Wyndham

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

33.

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

Williams, Carey

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Little, Mary

37.

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

Proverb, French

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

41.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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They [Young People] have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things -- and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning -- all their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything -- they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else.

Aristotle

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

Coco Chanel

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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.