Motivational Quotes

Youth

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

- Muggeridge, Malcolm

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Shaw, George Bernard

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Muggeridge, Malcolm

Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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

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

Williams, Carey

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Euripides

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Like a kite cut from the string, lightly the soul of my youth has taken flight

Takuboku, Ishikawa

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

23.

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

Bible

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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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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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Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

Phean, Luella F.

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The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible -- and achieve it, generation after generation.

Buck, Pearl S.

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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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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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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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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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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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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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

Bumper Sticker

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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Except for an occasional heart attack I feel as young as I ever did.