Motivational Quotes

Youth

Youth, with swift feet, walks onward in the way; the land of joy lies all before his eyes.

- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G.

Best Quotes about Youth

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Shaw, George Bernard

You are only young once, and if you work it right, once is enough.

Lewis, Joe E.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Picabia, Francis

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

Euripides

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

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

Kafka, Franz

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

Buck, Pearl S.

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

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

Hoover, Herbert Clark

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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

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

Gasset, Jose Ortega Y

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

Coco Chanel

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

Dickens, Charles

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Youth itself is a talent -- a perishable talent.

Hoffer, Eric

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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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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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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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Boyhood, like measles, is one of those complaints which a man should catch young and have done with, for when it comes in middle life it is apt to be serious.

P. G. Wodehouse

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No wise man ever wished to be younger.

Jonathan Swift

24.

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

Bible

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Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Connolly, Cyril

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Youth is the trustee of prosperity.

Disraeli, Benjamin

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

Waugh, Evelyn

28.

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

Bumper Sticker

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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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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

31.

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

32.

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

Pritchett, V. S.

33.

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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Don't laugh at a youth for his affectations; he is only trying on one face after another to find his own.

Logan Pearsall Smith

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

Willa Cather

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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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Youth covets; let not this covetousness seduce you.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

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The young are permanently in a state resembling intoxication.

Aristotle

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No man knows he is young while he is young.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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The wine of youth does not always clear with advancing years; sometimes it grows turbid.

Jung, Carl

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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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We have some salt of our youth in us.

William Shakespeare

44.

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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Ask the young. They know everything.

Joubert, Joseph

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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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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 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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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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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.