Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth has become a class.

- Vadim, Roger

Best Quotes about Youth

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

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

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

Benchley, Robert

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

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

Buck, Pearl S.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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 question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

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

Miller, Henry

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

Dickens, Charles

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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

20.

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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

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In youth we learn; in age we understand.

Marie Ebner von Eschenbach

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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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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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The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All who have passed the age of thirty are joyless grotesques, endlessly fussing about things of no importance and staying alive without, so far as the child can see, having anything to live for. Only child life is real life.

Orwell, George

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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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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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

Willa Cather

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

34.

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

Shaw, George Bernard

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

Williams, Carey

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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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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 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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Every youth owes it to himself and to the world to make the most possible out of the stuff that is in him...

Marden, Orison Swett

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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

Brookner, Anita

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Age is foolish and forgetful when it underestimates youth.

J. K. Rowling

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