Motivational Quotes

Youth

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Best Quotes about Youth

After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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

Willa Cather

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

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

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

Lowell, James Russell

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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.

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.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Coco Chanel

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Wade, H. V.

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

Proverb, French

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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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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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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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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

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Miller, Henry

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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 the time to go flashing from one end of the world to the other to try the manners of different nations; to hear the chimes at midnight; to see the sunrise in town and country; to be converted at a revival; to circumnavigate the metaphysics, write halting verses, run a mile to see a fire, and wait all day long in the theatre to applaud Hernani.

Stevenson, Robert Louis

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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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 should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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