Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Willa Cather

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Wade, H. V.

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

W. H. Thompson

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Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.

Lebowitz, Fran

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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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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As youth lives in the future, so the adult lives in the past: No one rightly knows how to live in the present.

Grillparzer, Franz

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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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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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Yes is how you get your first job, and your next job, and your spouse, and even your kids. Even if it's a bit edgy, a bit out of your comfort zone, saying yes means that you will do something new, meet someone new and make a difference.

Eric Schmidt

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Little, Mary

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Bible

43.

Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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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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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.