Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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

Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

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

Euripides

Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.

Ullman, Samuel

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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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 a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Proverb, French

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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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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

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

Miller, Henry

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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.

Priestley, J. B.

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

Willa Cather

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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