Motivational Quotes

Youth

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.

Best Quotes about Youth

The hatred of the youth culture for adult society is not a disinterested judgment but a terror-ridden refusal to be hooked into the, if you will, ecological chain of breathing, growing, and dying. It is the demand, in other words, to remain children.

Decter, Midge

Young men wish; love, money and health. One day, they'll say; health, money and love.

Geraldy, Paul

Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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

On the neck of a young man sparkles no gem so gracious as enterprise.

Hafiz

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

Seneca

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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

The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Rejoice, O young man, in thy youth; and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk in the ways of thine heart, and in the sight of thine eyes: but know thou, that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment. [Ecclesiastes 11:9]

Bible

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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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There's something amazing about the passion of youth and its power to sustain. If there's a more powerful energy source, I don't know about it.

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

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

W. H. Thompson

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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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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

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Williams, Carey

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Coco Chanel

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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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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Lewis, Joe E.

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

Proverb, French

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

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

Miller, Henry

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Young people need models, not critics...