Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

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

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

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

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

W. H. Thompson

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

10.

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Little, Mary

12.

I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Conrad, Joseph

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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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

16.

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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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 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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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It is the failing of youth not to be able to restrain its own violence.

Seneca

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

Lindsey, Ben

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Euripides

26.

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

27.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

28.

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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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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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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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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Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

33.

Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

34.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Bible

37.

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

38.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

39.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

40.

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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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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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

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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

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

Dickens, Charles

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

49.

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall