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

Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

George Bernard Shaw

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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Benchley, Robert

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Euripides

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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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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 is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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Youth gets together with their materials to build a bridge to the moon or maybe a palace on earth; then in middle age they decide to build a woodshed with them instead.

Thoreau, Henry David

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

40.

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 wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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