Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

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

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

Bible

Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Seneca

11.

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 is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

15.

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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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 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 has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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 troubles over eternity, age grasps at a day and is satisfied to have even the day.

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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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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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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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 covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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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 has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

Proverb, French

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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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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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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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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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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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

49.

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

Picabia, Francis

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