Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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Wooden, John

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

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

Miller, Henry

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

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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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 is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Seneca

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Conrad, Joseph

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

Brookner, Anita

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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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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

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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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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.

Raleigh, Sir Walter

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

Euripides

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

Dave Barry

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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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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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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

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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, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Proverb, French