Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Euripides

Best Quotes about Youth

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

The young, whether they know it or not, live on borrowed property.

Livingston, Richard W.

If youth only knew: if age only could.

Henri Estienne

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

Youth has no age.

Picasso, Pablo

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

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

Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Benchley, Robert

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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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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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Youth has become a class.

Vadim, Roger

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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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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 the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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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, 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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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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

Wade, H. V.

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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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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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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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Youth lives on hope, old age on memories.

Proverb, French

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

Hafiz

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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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Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

Brookner, Anita

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

Coco Chanel

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.

Hill, Aaron

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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 cannot always build the future for our youth, but we can build our youth for the future.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

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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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Young people need models, not critics...

Wooden, John

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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.