Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

- Wright, Frank Lloyd

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

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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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

10.

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

Willa Cather

11.

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

12.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

13.

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

Miller, Henry

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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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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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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

18.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

22.

It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length.

Keller, Helen

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

25.

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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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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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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The young feel tired at the end of an action, the old at the beginning.

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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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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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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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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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

36.

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

Coco Chanel

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

Seneca

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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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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

40.

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

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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

47.

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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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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