Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

Best Quotes about Youth

Youth today must be strong, unafraid, and a better taxpayer than its father.

Wade, H. V.

Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Dave Barry

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Trouble is, kids feel they have to shock their elders and each generation grows up into something harder to shock.

Lindsey, Ben

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Seneca

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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

Benchley, Robert

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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 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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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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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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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Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Chesterfield, Lord

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

Coco Chanel

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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Youth is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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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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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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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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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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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

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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

Miller, Henry

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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Waugh, Evelyn

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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.

Billings, Josh

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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

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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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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I, for one, hope that youth will again revolt and again demoralize the dead weight of conformity that now lies upon us.

Jones, Howard M.

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

Bumper Sticker

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

Dickens, Charles

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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