Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Williams, Carey

Best Quotes about Youth

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

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

James M. Barrie

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

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

There is a period near the beginning of every man's life when he has little to cling to except his unmanageable dream, little to support him except good health, and nowhere to go but all over the place.

White, Elwyn Brooks

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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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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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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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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Euripides

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Wade, H. V.

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Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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

Seneca

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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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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

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Dave Barry

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Coco Chanel

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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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Youth is to all the glad season of life; but often only by what it hopes, not by what it attains, or what it escapes.

Carlyle, Thomas

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

Proverb, French

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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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

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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