Motivational Quotes

Youth

Those whom the gods love grow young.

- Wilde, Oscar

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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 only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

11.

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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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

13.

The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Coco Chanel

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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

25.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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

Proverb, French

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

W. H. Thompson

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bible

48.

You can only be young once. But you can always be immature.

Dave Barry

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