Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

A youth with his first cigar makes himself sick; a youth with his first girl makes everybody sick.

Little, Mary

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Coco Chanel

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

Dave Barry

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 is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

Shaw, George Bernard

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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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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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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

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

Eliot, T. S.

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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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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

18.

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

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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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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

21.

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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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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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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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, 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 an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who has lost it.

Maugham, W. Somerset

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

30.

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

Bumper Sticker

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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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 itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

35.

All lovely things will have an ending, All lovely things will fade and die; And youth, that's now so bravely spending, Will beg a penny by and by.

Aiken, Conrad

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

40.

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

Dickens, Charles

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

Willa Cather

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

Miller, Henry

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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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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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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

Shaw, George Bernard

49.

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Rimbaud, Arthur