Motivational Quotes

Youth

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

- Hoover, Herbert Clark

Best Quotes about Youth

The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

What Youth deemed crystal, Age finds out was dew.

Browning, Robert

If youth but knew; if age but could.

Estienne, Henri

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

Herbert Henry Asquith

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

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

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

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. [Lamentations 3:27]

Bible

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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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 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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The young always have the same problem -- how to rebel and conform at the same time. They have now solved this by defying their parents and copying one another.

Crisp, Quentin

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

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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

Rimbaud, Arthur

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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 is a quality, not a matter of circumstances.

Wright, Frank Lloyd

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Youth is unduly busy with pampering the outer person.

Horace

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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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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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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

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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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Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.

Pritchett, V. S.

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The passions of the young are vices in the old.

Joubert, Joseph

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Do not commit the error common among the young, of assuming that if you cannot save the whole of mankind you have failed.

Hartog, Jan De

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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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Youth should be a savings bank.

Swetchine, Anne Sophie

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

Geraldy, Paul

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

Livingston, Richard W.

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

Willa Cather

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

Dickens, Charles

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

Dave Barry

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After all, life hasn't much to offer except youth and I suppose for older people the love of youth in others.

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The secret of eternal youth is arrested development.

Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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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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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

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

W. H. Thompson

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

Brookner, Anita

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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