Motivational Quotes

Youth

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

- Erskine, John

Best Quotes about Youth

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

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

James M. Barrie

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

Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

Lets tell young people the best books are yet to written; the best painting, the best government the best of everything is yet to be done by them.

Erskine, John

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

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

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

George Bernard Shaw

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Geraldy, Paul

11.

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

Eliot, T. S.

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth.

Barney, Natalie Clifford

15.

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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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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If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.

Lowell, James Russell

18.

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

19.

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

20.

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

Gilmore, Dame Mary

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

Dickens, Charles

23.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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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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To be young is all there is in the world. They talk so beautifully about work and having a family and a home (and I do, too, sometimes) --but it's all worry and head-aches and respectable poverty and forced gushing. Telling people how nice it is, when, in reality, you would give all of your last thirty years for one of your first thirty. Old people are tremendous frauds.

Stevens, Wallace

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Hafiz

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

Bumper Sticker

33.

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

34.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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Ask the young. They know everything.

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

Little, Mary

40.

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

Smith, Logan Pearsall

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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

42.

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

W. H. Thompson

43.

Those whom the gods love grow young.

Wilde, Oscar

44.

Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

Kafka, Franz

45.

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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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 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

48.

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

Buck, Pearl S.

49.

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

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No man knows he is young while he is young.